Web App and Virtual Host and Clustering

Question

          Hi,
          How are you doing?
          What is the best way to deploy a web application using a virtual host on a clustered
          environment?
          Here is what we are doing:
          o Deploy the web application on the virtual host
          o Deploy the virtual host on the cluster
          o Make the web appliation, the default application on the virtual host
          This seems to work, but I have additional questions?
          In the above deployment, looking at the deploy tab for the web application shows
          that the application is deployed to both the cluster as well as the virtual host.
          Even though we didn't explicitly deploy to the cluster! What happens if we deploy
          explicity (i.e., target) the web application to the cluster?
          What other approaches / configurations are you guys using?
          Thank you so much,
          -Bart Simpson
          

Answer 1

Never mind, I think I have a solution. Even though e-docs say that DefaultWebApp attribute at virtual host level was deprecated as of WL 8.1 (inline with Servlet 2.3 specification) one can directly edit config.xml file and add the attribute.
For instance, here is an example to set webapp APP1 as a default webapp for virtual host vhAPP1:
<VirtualHost
Name="vhAPP1"
DefaultWebApp="APP1"
... />