Change Tomcat Address on my localhost

Question

On my Tomcat, I have an HTML page.

I need to type the following address to make it run:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/BiddingSystem/BiddingSystem.html

but I want it to be accessed using this address: www.moribiz.com

Is this possible just by changing some setting on Tomcat?

Answer 1

I have Eclipse EE and Tomcat7, and I need to run my servlets not at localhost:8080, but on a pretty domain :)

I have made it this way:

1. In file %windows%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts add:

   127.0.0.10 tomcat
   

2. In file %workspace%\Servers\Tomcat 7 at localhost-config\Server.xml

    <Connector port="80" address="127.0.0.10" connectionTimeout="20000"
               protocol="HTTP/1.1" redirectPort="8443" URIEncoding="UTF-8" />
    <Engine defaultHost="tomcat" name="Catalina">
        <Host name="tomcat" appBase="webapps" autoDeploy="true" unpackWARs="true">
        ...
        </Host>
    </Engine>

Now my Apache Tomcat works fine (I hope) at http://tomcat/ and at same time my Apache2+PHP works at http://localhost/.

Answer 2

You can configure the host properties in Tomcat's server.xml, and can make an alias to the default localhost host:

<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" 
            autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
    <Alias>www.moribiz</Alias>
</Host>

For more information, see Tomcat's configuration manual.

Answer 3

Have a look at item 4 of O'Reilly's Tomcat tips:

<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN" debug="0">
    <Service name="Tomcat-Standalone">
        <Connector className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector"
                port="8080" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75"
                enableLookups="true" redirectPort="8443"/>
        <Connector className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector"
                port="8443" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75"
                acceptCount="10" debug="0" scheme="https" secure="true"/>
        <Factory className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteServerSocketFactory"
                clientAuth="false" protocol="TLS" />
        </Connector>
        <Engine name="Standalone" defaultHost="localhost" debug="0">
        <!-- This Host is the default Host -->
        <Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="webapps"
            unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
            <Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="0"/>
            <Context path="/orders" docBase="/home/ian/orders" debug="0"
                        reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
            </Context>
        </Host>

        <!-- This Host is the first "Virtual Host": www.example.com -->
        <Host name="www.example.com" appBase="/home/example/webapp">
            <Context path="" docBase="."/>
        </Host>

        </Engine>
    </Service>
</Server>

The relevant part is where the virtual host is defined (in the last <Host> tag).