Mapping Virtual Host to WebApp

Question

Hi,
Does anyony know how to accomplish the following:
- Have two virtual hosts on one server:
dev.example.com and test.example.com
- Create two OC4J containers on the AppServer
(one for DEV and one for TEST)
- Deploy two different versions of an EAR file
to the DEV and TEST containers.
Make sure that http://dev.example.com/application leads to the development version and http://test.example.com/application leads to the test version.
So, the only distinction between the two is the host-name and the rest of the URL is supposed to be the same. How can I then make sure each URL leads to the appropriate webapp?
Thanks

Answer 1

Wilfred,
This should work for two url's going to different sites/pages
The following is from the httpd.conf file on my devl/test server:
<VirtualHost *:7778>
ServerName host2.home.com
DirectoryIndex host2.html
Port 80
RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions inherit
OssoConfigFile c:\oracle\oramid\Apache\Apache\conf\osso\osso_host2.conf
OssoIpCheck off
DocumentRoot "c:\Oracle\OraMid\Apache\Apache\htdocs"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:7778>
ServerName host1.home.com
DirectoryIndex host1.html
Port 80
RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions inherit
</VirtualHost>
--in the next entries replace the http://....with the site you want the users to be redirected to.
Redirect /host2.html http://host2.home.com/portal/page?.....
Redirect /host1.html http://host1.home.com/portal/page?.....
I had to make all the changes directly to the httpd.conf file through OEM (directly to the file should work also). Tried the virtual hosts entries through oem to add the “DirectoryIndex” information but they kept discarding changes from each other….
Make sure the corresponding entries for the DirectoryIndex match the Redirect. The actual files don’t have to exist, Apache will look for them since that is the VirtualHost entry and redirect to the url specified in the Redirect.
Now when I enter http://host1.home.com I am taken to the Page specified in the redirect and when I enter http://host2.home.com I go to the page specified in that redirect.
Still have the logout issue “returning” to the default home page for the system. I'll be using a page with references to the existing sites with the addition of something that says “..if you’re done you may close your browser..”
HTH,
Dennis