Tomcat – Correct way to configure Tomcat virtual hosts

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If I want to access Tomcat directly from a remote host, i.e. not through Apache, should I configure the connector to use localhost or the external IP/hostname? What if it's on a Windows server and I want to access it both remotely and from the desktop or from two different external IPs – do I need multiple connectors and multiple directories under conf/Catalina/ or can I somehow connect two hosts to the same directory?

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You should use the external host name for the connector.

As long as the server is accessible from the all networks you're using with the external IP, you're good to go - no extra configuration.

If you do need multiple host names/IPs, you can do what the tomcat documentation suggests:

<Host name="www.mycompany.com" ...>
    <Alias>mycompany.com</Alias>
     ...
</Host>

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Centos – Tomcat with virtual hosts – 404

It smells like maybe it's running into a mod_rewrite or alias before it's getting to your virtual host definition. Everything you've posted looks correct, but you can try adding a few extra options:

JkWorkersFile  /explicit/path/to/workers.properties
JkLogFile      /var/log/mod_jk.log
JkLogLevel     debug

That first setting will make sure you're using the actual properties file you think you are, maybe something in your multi-tomcat environment is loading the wrong one. You might also check this specific instance's TOMCAT_HOME to ensure it's loading the right server.xml; you can actually pass that as well as a parameter to $TOMCAT_HOME with -config:

cd $TOMCAT_HOME
./bin/startup.sh -config /direct/path/to/server.xml

See where that takes you...

Tomcat – Running Tomcat on an Apache Alias Or Map Port numbers to Hostnames

Your hosts file is for address lookups, not forcing routing to a specific port.

You haven't specified your platform here, so these are general possible solutions:

Add a second IP address to your computer and bind apache to one and tomcat to another. Then you could use hosts to specify which one was which.
Setup an Alias in apache to forward to the other URL.
Setup your virtual hosts in apache so that it recognized different names (that you set in your hosts file) and forwards or proxies requests to tomcat if they are for the other host.

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Centos – Tomcat with virtual hosts – 404

Tomcat – Running Tomcat on an Apache Alias Or Map Port numbers to Hostnames

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