Virtual Host Configuration in Tomcat

Description: Here I have explained How to configure Virtual Host in Tomcat

Procedure: 

• To create Virtual hosts first you need to navigate to installation directory and edit config/server.xml or conf/server.xml in editor. Then create virtual host for your applications

1. The first application with domain name application1.com and /opt/tomcat/webapps/app1 document root
2. Second application with domain name application2.com and /opt/tomcat/webapps/app2 document root.

<Host name="application1.com"  appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">


 <Alias>application1.com</Alias>



 <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"

           prefix="example_access_log" suffix=".txt"

           pattern="%h %l %u %t %r %s %b" />



 <Context path="" docBase=" /opt/tomcat/webapps/app1"

    debug="0" reloadable="true"/>

</Host>







<Host name="application2.com"  appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">

 <Alias>application2.com</Alias>



 <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"

           prefix="example_access_log" suffix=".txt"

           pattern="%h %l %u %t %r %s %b" />



 <Context path="" docBase="/opt/tomcat/webapps/app2 "

    debug="0" reloadable="true"/>

</Host>

   
     3. Restart tomcat service