Perhaps you can make the app available as a subdirectory of a domain, (similar as how google does it) that way you can point them to http://example.com/example.org to access the app you would normally access as example.org Hope this helps,
Regards, Serge Fonville On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Angelo Chen <angelochen...@yahoo.com.hk>wrote: > > that's what i'm doing now, i was just hoping maybe there are ways without > updating the hosts files, reason is, when you ask somebody to try out your > app from a certain website and told them to update the hosts file, 9 out of > 10 will not do it, of course this happens only during development when the > domain is not yet pointed at the app. > > > Gregor Schneider wrote: > > > > Why don't you simple add the entry > > > > 127.0.0.1 www.myapp.com myapp.com > > > > into your /etc/hosts or *sic* in WIndows into > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts? > > > > Works for me > > > > Cheers > > > > Gregor > > -- > > just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you... > > gpgp-fp: 79A84FA526807026795E4209D3B3FE028B3170B2 > > gpgp-key available @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de:11371 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/by-passing-virtualhost-when-accessing-an-app--tp21308824p21309955.html > Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >