General Advice - Tomcat multiple domains

RLJB

We are setting up a new server that will run two different aware apps.

We would like to have two separate domains that point to the two different logon pages we have set up. For example...

www.application1.com goes to www.application1.com/AwareIM/app1logon.htm

and

www.application2.com goes to www.application2.com/AwareIM/app2logon.htm

When the user is working in the app, we want the right domain to be showing for that app eg www.application1.com or www.application2.com

If we want to set this up properly would we need to set up Virtual Hosting in Tomcat? Is that the correct way of doing it? And if so, has anyone done this and could provide any hints?

Thanks

(PS - this is our own server - not a VPS)

aware_support

I don't think it should be managed by Tomcat. You need to set up DNS mapping - host companies do it all the time, but I am not an expert and don't know the details of the process. Try Googling for it. This has to be done outside of Aware IM, I think

technopak

Hi,

One easy way I use to achieve this is by redirecting from the domain URL to your app login page. I created an index.html which includes a frame redirect as follows -

<html>

<head>
<title>My Aware Application </title>
</head>

</html>

The IP and domain (BS) are configurable.

This allows you to place the index.html file at any URL you like and you can configure the login URL within the frame to redirect to whatever server you have Aware running on.

Then when your users browse to www.myawareapp.com, they are presented with the login screen located at your server for the correct app.

One word of caution (and it's only a small one) - if your users use Internet Explorer, you need to ensure that IE is set to accept session cookies and you must clear the browser cache the first time a user logs on - or they will receive a 'session timed out' error. If they use Firefox, Chrome etc, there won't be a problem.

I'm assuming that you can tell your users about the cookie oddity 🙂

Hope this helps,

Peter

RLJB

Peter - thanks, that really does help - it works perfectly.

RLJB

We have been using this method for a while, quick question/s:

a) is there any performance hit using this method? ie would this be slowing our system down at all?

b) has anyone set up a SSL certificate using this method? Does it work?