Configuring a Tomcat/tc Server for multiple, name-based virtual hosts

Products

• VMware Tanzu tc Server

Issue/Introduction

Virtual hosting enables a single web server to serve multiple domain names. For Tomcat/tc Server, you can do this by configuring multiple, name-based virtual hosts in the server.xml file. Each of these name-based virtual hosts can have its own root web application deployed in its application base. 

Resolution

This is an example configuration for three name-based virtual hosts:

<Host name="ns_tomcat_vhost1" appBase="webapps-vhost1" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
    <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" 
           directory="logs" 
           prefix="ns_tomcat_vhost1_access_log." 
           suffix=".txt" 
           pattern="common" 
           resolveHosts="false"/>
</Host>

<Host name="ns_tomcat_vhost2" appBase="webapps-vhost2" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
    <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" 
           directory="logs" 
           prefix="ns_tomcat_vhost2_access_log." 
           suffix=".txt" 
           pattern="common" 
           resolveHosts="false"/>
</Host>

<Host name="ns_tomcat_vhost3" appBase="webapps-vhost3" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
    <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" 
           directory="logs" 
           prefix="ns_tomcat_vhost3_access_log." 
           suffix=".txt" 
           pattern="common" 
           resolveHosts="false"/>
</Host>

See also:

• Configuring Apache HTTP Server 2.0/2.2 as proxy server for backend Tomcat/tc Server instance with multiple virtual hosts

Additional Information

2025/04/16: reformat XML context, fix broken link