You're right. This is really a DNS thing, rather than a GlassFish
thing. What users will see as the GlassFish server name depends on
the DNS domain name that is used in the mapping of the IP address
of the machine on which GlassFish is served. On a LAN that does
not have a DNS server, say your home or a small lab, the GlassFish
server name will be whatever is defined for the IP<->host name
mapping in the etc/hosts file on the machine from which the
GlassFish site is accessed. Ideally, the IP<->host name mappings
should be the same in the /etc/hosts files on the GlassFish server
machine and any machine that is used to view pages on that server.
Scott
Dick Davies wrote:
> Maybe but that's not going to magically get DNS to work, which is what
> he needs. If I point DNS for www.fishfinger.com to my glassfish server, then
> www.fishfinger.com:8080/contextroot will serve up the webapp at /contextroot.
>
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Scott Fordin <Scott.Fordin_at_sun.com> wrote:
>> Correct me if I'm wrong here, but can't you set the domain host name
>> in the domain's config/domain.xml file with the serverName property?
>>
>> <property name="serverName" value="somehostname"/>
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> Jacob Kessler wrote:
>>> This is a linux-related issue, since Glassfish never touches the hostname,
>>> but a quick google turned up
>>> http://www.ducea.com/2006/08/07/how-to-change-the-hostname-of-a-linux-system/
>>> . Hopefully that is helpful to you.
>>>
>>> Something else to consider is that there may be a firewall blocking access
>>> from the separate computer, which you would also have to configure to allow
>>> the external requests through.
>>>
>>> glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
>>>> Hi, i'm a complete newbie with glassfish. While i've managed to get it
>>>> up and going and, with the help of this forum, to debug problems relating to
>>>> deploying webstart application clients, i can only do this on localhost.
>>>> I've gone through the documentation many times and can't find a simple,
>>>> detailed set of instructions for running glassfish on something other than
>>>> localhost. For example, i just want to access some app, "App" on my
>>>> hostname rather than on localhost: http://hostname:8080/App instead of
>>>> http://localhost:8080/App. Of course i can do that on the same computer i'm
>>>> coding on because of some internal mapping, but when i try it from a
>>>> separate computer it doesn't work. Anyway, do i create a whole new domain?
>>>> I've found bits and pieces in the forum that the hostname comes from the
>>>> hosts file in linux (i'm on ubuntu). Nothing seems to work so far. Using
>>>> glassfish v 2.1.
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