Author: markt
Date: Tue Mar 15 09:42:37 2011
New Revision: 1081698
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1081698&view=rev
Log:
The name for the default host does not have to be resolvable in DNS.
Modified:
tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/config/host.xml
Modified: tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/config/host.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/config/host.xml?rev=1081698&r1=1081697&r2=1081698&view=diff
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--- tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/config/host.xml (original)
+++ tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/config/host.xml Tue Mar 15 09:42:37 2011
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@
<p>The <strong>Host</strong> element represents a <em>virtual host</em>,
which is an association of a network name for a server (such as
- "www.mycompany.com" with the particular server on which Catalina is
- running. In order to be effective, this name must be registered in the
- <em>Domain Name Service</em> (DNS) server that manages the Internet
- domain you belong to - contact your Network Administrator for more
- information.</p>
+ "www.mycompany.com" with the particular server on which Tomcat is running.
+ For clients to be able to connect to a Tomcat server using its network name,
+ this name must be registered in the <em>Domain Name Service</em> (DNS) server
+ that manages the Internet domain you belong to - contact your Network
+ Administrator for more information.</p>
<p>In many cases, System Administrators wish to associate more than
one network name (such as <code>www.mycompany.com</code> and
@@ -58,6 +58,15 @@
associated with each Engine MUST have a name matching the
<code>defaultHost</code> attribute of that Engine.</p>
+ <p>Clients normally use host names to identify the server they wish to
connect
+ to. This host name is also included in the HTTP request headers. Tomcat
+ extracts the host name from the HTTP headers and looks for a
+ <strong>Host</strong> with a matching name. If no match is found, the request
+ is routed to the default host. The name of the default host does not have to
+ match a DNS name (although it can) since any request where the DNS name does
+ not match the name of a <strong>Host</strong> element will be routed to the
+ default host.</p>
+
<blockquote><em>
<p>The description below uses the variable name $CATALINA_BASE to refer the
base directory against which most relative paths are resolved. If you have
@@ -169,9 +178,9 @@
</attribute>
<attribute name="name" required="true">
- <p>Network name of this virtual host, as registered in your
+ <p>Usually the network name of this virtual host, as registered in your
<em>Domain Name Service</em> server. Regardless of the case used to
- specify the hostname, Tomcat will convert it to lower case internally.
+ specify the host name, Tomcat will convert it to lower case internally.
One of the Hosts nested within an <a href="engine.html">Engine</a> MUST
have a name that matches the <code>defaultHost</code> setting for that
Engine. See <a href="#Host Name Aliases">Host Name Aliases</a> for
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