[OFBiz] Dev - Possible bug with <virtual-host> elements in webapp configurations

[Helmut Eggebert]

Hi Users,

I posted to the user list two days ago with the subject line MultiStores 
missing images and css but I have taken a few more cracks at it and I now 
think its a bug rather than a config problem.  With 3.2tag I had missing 
images and css but now with HEAD/trunk I get blank pages.

Following David's advice here 
http://lists.ofbiz.org/pipermail/dev/2005-February/007864.html I replaced my 
3.2tag install with a svn HEAD/trunk install.  Then I proceeded to try each 
of these methods of virtual hosting and combinations of the two:
http://ofbizwiki.go-integral.com/Wiki.jsp?page=SSSMultiStores3
http://ofbizwiki.go-integral.com/Wiki.jsp?page=SSSMultiStores11

However, some of these methods don't seem to work.  My current theory is 
that both of these worked with Jetty but with Tomcat only the 
SSSMultiStores11 is working.  The SSSMultiStores3 method, which involves 
adding one or more <virtual-host host-name="www.foo1.com"/> (being careful 
to close it with </webapp>, etc) elements to your webapp configuration does 
not seem to work in Tomcat.

SSSMultiStores11 works fine as long as there are no <virtual-host> elements 
in any webapp configurations.  I followed SSSMultiStores11 exactly and had 
http://localhost:8080/ecommerce1 running a different store and catalog than 
http://localhost:8080/ecommerce2 on the same OFBiz HEAD/trunk instance.  
However, when I tried the method with adding a <virtual-host> element to an 
additional webapp configuration, this is what I get:

http://localhost:8080/ecommerce1 -> fine as long as no vh in its seperate 
webapp config
http://localhost:8080/ecommerce2 -> fine as long as no vh in its seperate 
webapp config
http://www.foo1.com/ecommerce -> blank page with this vh in its seperate 
webapp config
http://www.foo2.com/ecommerce -> blank page with this vh in its seperate 
webapp config

Then I tried removing the webapp configs with vh elements in them and 
creating new components for these vitual hosts.  To create new components, 
I:
1) copied the ecommerce component, renamed the directory
2) edited ofbiz-component.xml in the component to change the name such as 
<ofbiz-component name="ecommerce-foo1">
3) added the appropriate line in component-load.xml such as <load-component 
component-location="${ofbiz.home}/components/ecommerce-foo1"/>
4) added the <virtual-host host-name="www.foo1.com"/>

I still get a blank page.  When a url such as http://www.foo1.com/ecommerce 
is used the index.jsp does not do a redirect, no session is created, and the 
servlet does not do a setup, etc.

This post relates to this thread with Al Byers, Joe Eckard and Tim Massey:
http://lists.ofbiz.org/pipermail/users/2004-April/003687.html
In that thread, it seemed that Al got it working but that was in April on 
Jetty.  Has anybody got this working with the newest version?

Thanks in advance.

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