Apache Virtual Hosts and Weblogic 5.1SP6

Running:
WebLogic Server 5.1.0 w/ Service Pack 6
Solaris 7
Hello, I've been reading through the newsgroups and saw alot of information on
setting up apache and weblogic to handle virtual hosts, but am still having problems
getting it to work.
I have 2 domains that will be served up by one instance of Apache using NameBased
virtual hosts and I would like to have our one instance of WebLogic 5.1SP6 handle
them as well.
Excerpt from my httpd.conf file:
NameVirtualHost 216.xx.x.xx:80
<VirtualHost vcstgws011:80>
ServerName vcstgws011.domain1.com
Port 80
DocumentRoot /opt/vci-10.8/webapps/www
DirectoryIndex index.jsp
<Directory "/opt/vci-10.8/webapps/www">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost vcstgws011:80>
ServerName www.domain2.com
Port 80
DocumentRoot /opt/vci-10.8/webapps/www/dsl
DirectoryIndex index.jsp
<Directory "/opt/vci-10.8/webapps/www">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Under my default server configuration I have the WebLogic stuff:
<IfDefine WL>
WebLogicCluster vcstgas011.domain1.com:7001
Debug on
DebugConfigInfo on
ConnectTimeoutSecs 60
HungServerRecoverSecs 300
Debug on
DebugConfigInfo on
<Files *.jsp>
SetHandler weblogic-handler
</Files>
<Location /weblogic>
SetHandler weblogic-handler
PathTrim /weblogic
</Location>
<Location /servlet>
SetHandler weblogic-handler
</Location>
<Location /Admin*>
SetHandler weblogic-handler
</Location>
<Location /j_security_check>
SetHandler weblogic-handler
</Location>
</IfDefine>
And here's an excerpt from my weblogic.properties file:
# HTTPD
weblogic.httpd.enable=true
# DocumentRoot configuration
weblogic.httpd.defaultWebApp=/opt/vci-10.8/webapps/www
weblogic.httpd.indexDirectories=true
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark

Anyone have success with Name-Based virtual hosts using same instance of WebLogic?
"Mark Mangano" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Running:
WebLogic Server 5.1.0 w/ Service Pack 6
Solaris 7
Hello, I've been reading through the newsgroups and saw alot of information
on
setting up apache and weblogic to handle virtual hosts, but am still
having problems
getting it to work.
I have 2 domains that will be served up by one instance of Apache using
NameBased
virtual hosts and I would like to have our one instance of WebLogic 5.1SP6
handle
them as well.
Excerpt from my httpd.conf file:
NameVirtualHost 216.xx.x.xx:80
<VirtualHost vcstgws011:80>
ServerName vcstgws011.domain1.com
Port 80
DocumentRoot /opt/vci-10.8/webapps/www
DirectoryIndex index.jsp
<Directory "/opt/vci-10.8/webapps/www">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost vcstgws011:80>
ServerName www.domain2.com
Port 80
DocumentRoot /opt/vci-10.8/webapps/www/dsl
DirectoryIndex index.jsp
<Directory "/opt/vci-10.8/webapps/www">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Under my default server configuration I have the WebLogic stuff:
<IfDefine WL>
WebLogicCluster vcstgas011.domain1.com:7001
Debug on
DebugConfigInfo on
ConnectTimeoutSecs 60
HungServerRecoverSecs 300
Debug on
DebugConfigInfo on
<Files *.jsp>
SetHandler weblogic-handler
</Files>
<Location /weblogic>
SetHandler weblogic-handler
PathTrim /weblogic
</Location>
<Location /servlet>
SetHandler weblogic-handler
</Location>
<Location /Admin*>
SetHandler weblogic-handler
</Location>
<Location /j_security_check>
SetHandler weblogic-handler
</Location>
</IfDefine>
And here's an excerpt from my weblogic.properties file:
# HTTPD
weblogic.httpd.enable=true
# DocumentRoot configuration
weblogic.httpd.defaultWebApp=/opt/vci-10.8/webapps/www
weblogic.httpd.indexDirectories=true
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark

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>I am having a bit of trouble with processing PHP after
setting up a virtual
> server on apache.
>
>
> This is the setup:
>
> Apache is installed and the document root is "C:\Program
Files\Apache
> Group\Apache2\htdocs" which was originally set as
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>
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> Any other pitfalls in setting this up would also be
kindly received
>
>
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<pre class="command">sudo cp /etc/httpd/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.cmbak.1</pre>Where I just incremement the "1" on the end. Or I put the date on there: httpd.conf.cmbak.20061229. That way, I always have the current file to fall back on...
And don't forget: any time you make a change to the httpd.conf file, you have to stop and restart the web server! That's so easy to forget. Also, if you're changing the configuration, these two Terminal commands will be your friends:
<pre class="command">/usr/sbin/apachectl configtest
/http -S</pre>
The first one tells you if you have any syntax errors in your configuration file, the second will tell you about your virtual host setup.
charlie

Configuring a virtual host in Weblogic

Hi,
I created a virtual host in Weblogic but it doesn't work. I followed all of the steps from the Weblogic website.
The default URL for my application works, http://localhost:7001/abc_application but when I try using the new virtual host I get an error,
http://xyz.com:7001/abc_application. I applied the virtual host to my Weblogic Managed Server and also to a deployed application. What else needs to be done outside of Weblogic for this to work?
Sorry for the cross-posting.
Thanks,
Annette

Hi Annette!
Have you modified the hosts file for your machine to add an entry for xyz.com to map back to 127.0.0.1?
What sort of errors are you getting when you try to access the virtual host? Can you post a snippet from your log file?
Apologies if your problem has been solved since posting this message...
<br>
Kevin Powe
http://www.integral-techsolutions.com

Virtual Hosts and CF Server Install

CF8
FC8 (yes I know it really has to be RHEL for support)
Apache 2.2.6
I am testing out a new webserver for a client. We are trying
to use apache virtual hosts with a single instance of CF8. This
will just be a few virtualhosts, not a large amount.
After some difficulty with installations and the connector I
was able to get CF8 running with apache. After setting up the
virtualhosts I only could get to the CFIDE directory after adding
it as an alias in the virtualhost config.
If I try to pull up a test cfm file in a virtualhost site CF
reports file not found. Yet it will pull up the administrator site.
I assume thats because the /CFIDE path matches that in the main
webserver root directory.
Can I run a single instance of CF across apache and its
virtualhosts? I know CF is running in the VirtualHosts as its an
error screen from CF. However it just seems like CF is very
confused when it comes to directory paths.

I've been fighting the issue all day long. I was so glad to
come across your post. Unfortunately, there was no answer attached.
:-( I've figured it out in my install. Hopefully it will be of
benefit to you.
Turns out the problem was a permissions error. When
Coldfusion couldn't read my virtualhost's directory it defaulted to
the standard wwwroot. To fix it I did a "chmod -R a+rX
/home/jason/public_html. Then I tried loading the page again and
all was good.

Using SSL with Apache Virtual Hosts

I am configuring Apache to use 3 virtual Host(Named base virtual Host).
I would like to run SSL on two of the 3 virtual host.
Do I need to gen a certificate for each virtual host or can I just use 1?

William,
I thought I'd give my 2 cents on this...
Is there any particular reason as to why you are using named based virtual hosts?
Apache recommends using IP based virtual hosts over name based virtual hosts.
Go to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/dns-caveats.html and read the discussion on IP based virtual hosts and name based virtual hosts. The document describes the drawbacks to using the name-based approach.
Hope this helps!
-Manjeet

How to configure Apache Virtual Hosts?

Hi, I was wondering, how does configure Apache virtual hosts for Mac OS X Client 10.4.5? At this time, I have added
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/Documents/janus
ServerName janus.php.test
ErrorLog /private/var/log/httpd/janus.php.com-error_log
CustomLog /private/var/log/httpd/janus.php.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
Finally, when I try to use the name in the browser, I get the following error message:
Safari can’t find the server.
Safari can’t open the page “http://janus.php.test/” because it can’t find the server “janus.php.test”.
Well, I must go and thanks in advance.
Peace,
-Conrad

If you want to use the fqdn you defined and can/do not want to register it as a Internet Domain you can add it to the hosts file in /etc/hosts if you are comfortable using terminal and the shell
open a terminal
and use the following commands
cd /etc
sudo vim hosts
(you will be prompted for your password here, enter it and hit return)
in vim scroll to the last line which will look like
::1 localhost
type
i
(you are now in insert mode)
type the following line
192.168.0.15 janus.php.test
(replace the ip address with the ip address of the host in question)
hit Control-C
type
:w (vim will confirm in the last line)
type
:q
you are back at the terminal
test your new hosts file by typing
ping janus.php.test
Hope this helps
Mike

Apache Virtual Hosts and Weblogic 5.1SP6

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