Disabling plain http for a webapp

[Iasion Papadopulus]

Hello,

I have a Tomcat server serving a couple of webapps, where noone is allowed to use http. So we switched of the http part completely and are only using the https part of tomcat.

Now we hava a webapp that has to be run with plain http, and I wonder if there is a way of making just one webapp listen to http without changing any configuration of the others. The bottom line is that we have an infrastructure for deploying webapps and I don't want to change anything concerning the deployment and configuration of other webapps. What I have to my disposal is the configuration of Tomcat itself and the affected webapp that has to run through http.

Is it possible to turn on http just for one webapp or is the only sollution to run a second instanse of a Tomcatserver that listens to http?

[Lester Burnham]

If Tomcat is not listening to HTTP, then there's no way to use HTTP to get through to an app running in Tomcat.

You don't need a second Tomcat instance, though. You can define one Service that only has an HTTP Connector, and one Service that only has an HTTPS Connector. See http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/index.html for details.

[Iasion Papadopulus]

Thanks for the hint. Seems like the Service tag is what I was looking for!