Web hosting issues with Jsp/Servlet
843841May 3 2004 — edited May 6 2004Hi,
I signed up with one respective Web hosting company (ITA Network Solutions) and now have
a web space along with ability to use JSP/Servlet applications (no EJB, but I do not need them anyway).
It turned out, however, they do not do proper configuration of Apache (I believe this is what they are using
as primary web server) to use Tomcat (They are using Tomcat 3.x as Jsp Container).
Any time I need to access my web app I have to type port 8080 as part of URL or have redirect
from html page (which ends up having port 8080 as part of URL on the web browser).
This kind of sucks, but their pricing is so sweet - I'm going to continue working with them
(at least for a year to test my apps).
Does anybody have an idea of how to "hide" port 8080 from the end-user's eyes?
(one of the reasons to hide port is allow web search engines like Google, Yahoo and A9
to see the content of my pages). Sorry, URL cloaking with framesets does not work for me!!!
I don't use frames at all.
I was thinking of maybe having something like PHP page that "includes" response from
Jsp container (parsing URL and adding 8080 and then including the result within HPH page).
There would be a single PHP page (or maybe a handful - per servlet).
Did anyone ever do this or similar tasks?
Thanks,
NikJava