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I have a Tomcat server that that I want to run multiple webapps each with a different domain name. Given the configuration below, I want to be able to connect to http://webapp1 and get to its webapp and http://webapp2 and get to that one.

Currently when I start tomcat with this configuration, it complains about multiple bindings on port 80 (which I thought wouldn't be a problem given different domains) and when I try to access any of them, regardless of the domain I enter, I get the first webapp.

How do I get this to work the way I intend?

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener" SSLEngine="on" />
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JasperListener" />
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener" />
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" />
  <GlobalNamingResources>
    <Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container"
              type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
              description="User database that can be updated and saved"
              factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"
              pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml" />
  </GlobalNamingResources>
  <Service name="SERVICE_WEBAPP1">
    <Connector port="80" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
               connectionTimeout="20000" 
               redirectPort="443"
               compression="on"
           address="webapp1" />
    <Connector port="443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
               maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
               clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"
               ciphers="SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, 
            TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, 
            SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, 
            SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA"
           keystoreFile="KEYSTOREFILE1"
               keystorePass="keypass1"
           keystoreType="PKCS12"
           useIPVHosts="true"
           address="webapp1" />
    <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="443" />
    <Engine name="SERVICE_WEBAPP1" defaultHost="webapp1" >
      <Host name="webapp1"  appBase="webapp1dir"
        unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
        xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
      </Host>   
    </Engine>
  </Service>
  <Service name="SERVICE_WEBAPP2">
    <Connector port="80" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
               connectionTimeout="20000" 
               redirectPort="443"
               compression="on"
           address="webapp2" />
    <Connector port="443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
               maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
               clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"
               ciphers="SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, 
            TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, 
            SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, 
            SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA"
           keystoreFile="KEYSTOREFILE2"
               keystorePass="keypass2"
           useIPVHosts="true"
           address="webapp2" />
    <Engine name="SERVICE_WEBAPP2" defaultHost="webapp2" >
      <Host name="webapp2"  appBase="webapp2dir"
        unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
        xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
      </Host>
    </Engine>
  </Service>
</Server>

I'm trying to copy a database from one server to another. I tried using the following command and it's getting tied up on entering the ssh passwords. If I put in one server's password, it complains about the other and vice versa.

ssh root@server1 mysqldump --databases db | ssh root@server2 mysql

I managed to do the transfer by holding the dumps temporarily on my computer, just wondering if there is a way to get this to work.

So,I have a cloud account with Rackspace Cloud. I've set up a server with them. They gave me an IP and a password. I SSH'd to the machine, installed Mysql-server, Java and JBoss 5.0.1. I started JBoss on port 80 by modifying the server.xml in the JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jbossweb.sar/ directory. I start JBoss server with a EAR deployed, which deploys without errors. I've tested this EAR on my local instance of this same server. In fact, by "install" I meant "tarred up, scp'd and untarred on the cloud server."

After starting the server, with seemingly no problems, when I point to the IP in my browswer, I get an unable to connect error. I'm expecting JBoss's default management stuff to show up. I also tried several different pages in my deployed EAR and go the same thing.

I'm really, really new at this. What could I be doing wrong?

When a company's primary focus is developing, deploying and maintaining software, at what point would it be prudent to hire a dedicated sysadmin? What are the warning signs that you need one?