Virtual hosts web : how ??

Lion Server is driving me nuts.
I'm honestly few hours away from see if time machine works nicely and restore Snow Leopard Server and get everything back as it was.
First and major grip : multiple domains.
Second : php and apache extensions.
Before everything was easy, I can configure everything , multiple domains, with aliases, etc etc. Now everything gets pointed to ONE domain and I cannot even see the wildcards ( * ) . So as I have several domains pointing to my webserver, he simple ignore them and puts up the default page.
Oh and PHP : not working. So I tried to change to root directory but dont have PHP parsing. Extensions ? None.
They made everything simplistic. Fine for a road user. Very bad for a server.
I downloaded the optional server tools and got my workgroup manager back and my server admin but in the server admin, I cannot add the web service ( presumebly because its in the server app already ) so I cannot configure any aliases / virtual hosts / extensions
Do I have to edit apache files manual ? off with the GUI ? what was wrong with the old one ?
Please help, got a 12.000 hits site down at the moment and cannot get it back up.
Oh and dont get me started on the removal of MySQL...

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Dear members:
I am considering OS X Server for a personal project and would like some advice to help me decided what route to take.
My computer will soon be turned into a server hosting my web sites and some other services at my home office. I am thinking about OS X Server as I have done some research and found OS X to require quite a bit of work so that it can do virtual hosting.
How simple is it to configure virtual hosting in OS X Server ? I am considering the latest Leopard version in case it matters. I am not experienced and wish to employ an application that will simplify this process.
Any help will be very appreciated.
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You could create local PAC file <http://findproxyforurl.com/pac_file_examples.html> where you can return multiple PROXY servers. You would create text file with your PAC script in it. Then specify System Preferences -> Network -> Advanced -> Proxy -> Automatic Proxy Configuration, and click "Choose File".
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/usr/sbin/networksetup -switchtolocation "MyCompanysProxy1"
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Accessing portal server with virtual host via web dispatcher

Hi,
I have portal installed at http://hostname.com:50000. A web dispatcher is installed in front of it which uses port number 80 and redirects to http://hosname.com:50000.
so when i say http://hostname, my web dispatcher redirects to http://hostname.com:50000/ from where i can access my portal.
now I want to create an alias for my hostname, say when user types http://mydev, it should redirect to http://hostname.company.com thru webdispatcher.
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HI Jacob,
Thank you for the reply.. I am little bit confused.could you please clarify the followint to me.
My requirement is when user types "http://epdev", it should redirect to http://hostname.company.com:50000
1. To do that, according to what you said, I will create a DNS alias epdev to the IP address where my portal is hosted. so when the user types http://epdev, I have set up a parameter in web dispatcher profile to redirect to http://hostname.company.com:50000/.. so my requirement is fulfilled now..I hope this the correct proc for what I intended to achieve. am I right?
2. As said above, I am using web dispatcher only for redirection to a fully qualified name, as portal requires as fully qualified domain name. Is there a possibility other than web dispatcher for redirection.
3. if the above procedure works, I got a question like..what is the use of "virtual hosts".
How is it different from creating for instance, creating as many DNS aliases to IP address.
Although, it was explained at http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/0b/fbf5a47928f84e8d0beba8371508e6/frameset.htm
I didnt clearly understand it.
I would really appreciate, if you could clarify these to me.
Thank you

How to create and access a Virtual Host on the J2EE WAS?

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Graham

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I do not see clearly how to accomplish this configuration using the WLS suite. Would appreciate guidance on this prior to plunking down big dollars for licenses.
Thanks

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Console shows web application deployed to server but not to the virtual host yet things still work, huh?

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regards
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Hi Trevor
For test purpose i can do it works.
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I hope this can be useful for you.
Regards
diego

Web sharing - virtual hosts and CGI

This topic might be a bit advanced for this forum, I'm not sure. But here goes.
I'm trying to set up my laptop to act like a web server so that I can do test development on it. I have two web sites, and have successfully created virtual hosts for each of them.
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in the config.xml file. I just prefixed my virtual host names with 'vh' and
all is good!
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news:[email protected]..
I have a number of virtual host being served on the same weblogic 8.1.1
server. For example, say www.abc.com , www.def.com and www.ghi.com andthey
each have their own directory underneath the applications directory ABC,
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www.ghi.com, I would like weblogic to automatically goto the appropriateweb
app I want to associated with each virtual host.
Is this possible? So far, I've seen it can't.
I put in the <context-root>/</context-root> in the weblogic.xml file, but
the server only lets you have one context root. So the first web app to
load gets the context root, so www.def.com can get the DEF application,but
the rest of them have to have some context, in other words www.abc.com/ABC
or even www.abc/GHI will work, but I don't want that! This was easily
configurable in 7.0SP1+2. Where and how do I do this in 8.1.1?
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have that are useful? I'm not sure where to goto next. Thanks.

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Hi
We are trying to run several virtual hosts on the same managed server. However, each of those virtual hosts (e.g. bob.mydomain.com, john.mydomain.com) will need to have a different default web application (the rest of the deployed web applications will be the same between hosts). We tried to create default web applications with <context-root> in weblogic.xml set to / (also tried "") - however when attempting to deploy 2nd default web app an error message comes up:
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How to configure multiple virtual hosts for the same context root /

Hi,
I am using Glassfish V1 U1 - b14 on Solaris.
I am trying to configure two applications to be mapped to the / root context, each one in its own virtual host.
Two things I have noticed:
1. I have to manually add virtual-hosts="hostId" in domain.xml/application-ref ... looks like just simply deploying the app does not do that although the application is set as default for its particular virtual host. Is this a bug?
2. Although I have set for each virtual host the default web-app correctly, and they both respond fine, I cannot map both of them to the / context. The second application (chronologically deployed) does not respond when called with the / context ....
Any ideas? Is this a bug again?
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Rares
Message was edited by:
raresp

Wow, that's a shame. All mighty Application Server and two different apps on two different virtual hosts are considered ambiguous to have the same context root definition.... Fair play to Tomcat and 90% of the rest of servlet containers!
In my case I have the same EAR we are planning to deploy to many (up to 30) virtual hosts. Faking different context roots for each deployment will bring unnecessary overheads...
Should I file a bug or feature request?
Thanks again for your answer, although you're basically saying it is not possible I will wait and look a while for a possible solution before bringing this topic to a conclusion.

How to run local host web application in win 7 64 bit with oracle database?

Hi all,
Hope doing well,
sir i am running my local host web application with oracle database in win 7 32 bit. it's working fine.
but when i am running the same thing in win 7 64 bit. it's showing login error.
not going to home page even i checked with this published file open in visual studio it's working fine.
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The number of times you have been asked to post sufficient details for your questions, we would expect you to have got the message by now... but clearly not.
952646 wrote:
but when i am running the same thing in win 7 64 bit. it's showing login error.What error? You haven't posted an error. There are millions of possible errors in computing and you're expecting people to guess which one.
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I've read through some of the postings here on virtual hosts, but I thought I'd better solicit advice before I actually try some of the things I've read about.
In a nutshell, I've purchased multiple domain names that I'd like to alias to a new site (currently it is just a subfolder in the main site directory) on my OS 10.3.x server. There is only the one main site configured right now on the box, so I know I need to set up a second "virtual site" pointing to the files in this subfolder to make it function as its own site.
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So, I have two main questions:
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2) Currently, I have URL Forwarding set with my multiple domain names, but I'm thinking there might be a better way to do this? For SEO I'd rather use some type of redirect rather than being penalized by search engines for having what looks to be multiple domains pointing to the same site.I'm thinking I should create virtual sites for each domain name I've purchased with a hard redirect back to the main site?
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thank you for your reply.
> You can create each site as a new Site in Server
Admin. When you do this you can choose any
directory on disk as the document root for each
site.This means you can move the sites' folders out of
/Library/WebServer/Documents if you like - you could
create /Library/WebServer/site1,
/Library/WebServer/site2, etc. (or even be outside of
/Library/WebServer if you want).
so, are you are saying that I could designate one site to be
/Library/WebServer/Documents/site1
and another to be
/Library/WebServer/Documents/site1/directory1
even though directory1 is contained within site1's structure? I'm not advancing this as a good idea, necessarily. I'm just wondering if Apache would complain.
> Each site should have the domain name set as per your
registered domains. Apache will need this to
determine the correct site to serve for each
request.
Well, after some additional research I'm thinking I'm missing a critical piece of the puzzle. That being access to the DNS host server that manages the context of my server. I have purchased domain names through an outside registrar that point to my site and I can create virtual hosts on my server, but I don't have the ability to add the new virtual host names into the DNS server that manages my box. If that makes sense. Or maybe I'm missing something?
>
I'm not sure why you're using URL forwarding at all.
Without that piece of information it's impossible to
tell you whether you should continue using them or
not - in general there's no need to use URL
forwarding if you have multiple Virtual Hosts setup,
but it sounds like you have multiple hostnames
pointing to the same content, so your needs may be
different.
I'm using forwarding for the reason I list above. I didn't purchase hosting with the registrar where I purchased my domain names, so they are parked on the registrar's name server with URL forwarding to my server. The DNS server that manages my box resides in a different location and I don't have the ability to add DNS entries pointing to virtual hosts that I want to set up. Am I stuck?
G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 10.3.9 Server

How to define a separate virtual host for each client in SICF

Hello,
We have an ERP system with multiple clients running on it. The WebDynpro ABAP applications once developed are available on all clients, as standard. However, this is not our desired behavior. We want:
1. The WebDynpro ABAP applications should be managed separately in SICF depending on the client
2. The URL for accessing the WebDynpro application should have a own host name for each client. e.g.
A WebDynpro application on client 100 should be accessed by http://host1:5000/sap/bc/... and the same application on client 200 should be accessed by http://host2:5000/sap/bc/...
After a while researching I find out that creating a virtual host for each client in SICF would be a possible solution to fulfill the above mentioned requirments:
1. Set the profile parameter is/HTTP/virt_host_* with corresponding host name and port number
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3. Assign a client to this virtual host
My question is how to specify a client to a virtual host? I didn't find any possibilities in SICF!
Anyone can help me? Thanks a lot in advance!
Best Regards
Di Li

Hi Srikishan,
thanks for your reply. Your suggested way is certainly a potential, and also my preferred option for solving the multiple-client-capable URL access to WebDynpro / BSP applications.
However, for some reasons, based on the customer requirements, the client should not be visible in the URL. The URL for accessing the WebDynpro / BSP applications on different client should have different host name, as if they are different companies. Besides that, we want to manage each WebDynpro / BSP application on different clients in SICF separately.
Therefore, at least on my opinion, we need to introduce a virtual host for each client in SICF. But how do I make it happen?
Regards
Di

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