Configuring Host Name and Alias using Tomcat's server.xml
To associate an alias to your domain
Open file /usr/share/tomcat6/conf/server.xml
Insert the following in the </Engine> tag
<Host appBase="/home/virtualnewspaper" autoDeploy="false" deployOnStartup="false" name="catalogo.dmail.it">
<Context docBase="./homedmediacommerce" path="" reloadable="true"/>
<Context docBase="./dmediacommerce" path="/dmediacommerce" reloadable="true"/>
<Context docBase="/usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/manager" path="/manager" privileged="true" reloadable="true">
<ResourceLink global="UserDatabase" name="users" type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"/>
</Context>
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="/home/access_logs" fileDateFormat="yyyyMMdd" pattern="combined" prefix="catalogo_dmail_it_access_log." resolveHosts="false" suffix=".log"/>
</Host>
<Host appBase="/home/virtualnewspaper" autoDeploy="false" deployOnStartup="false" name="CNAME">
<Context docBase="./homedmediacommerce" path="" reloadable="true"/><Context docBase="./PLATFORMFOLDER" path="/PLATFORMFOLDER" reloadable="true"/>
<Context docBase="/usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/manager" path="/manager" privileged="true" reloadable="true">
<ResourceLink global="UserDatabase" name="users" type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"/></Context>
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="/home/access_logs" fileDateFormat="yyyyMMdd" pattern="combined" prefix="catalogo_dmail_it_access_log." resolveHosts="false" suffix=".log"/>
</Host>
Restart tomcat
27/01/2015
27/01/2015