[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (WFLY-7112) Allow optional tag virtual-host (and others) inside jboss-app.xml
Guido Jäkel created WFLY-7112:
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Summary: Allow optional tag virtual-host (and others) inside jboss-app.xml
Key: WFLY-7112
URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-7112
Project: WildFly
Issue Type: Feature Request
Reporter: Guido Jäkel
Assignee: Jason Greene
With undertow, the assignment of a web-application to a virtual host must be set in
{{$WAR/META-INF/jboss-web.xml}}. A very adjacent parameter, the context-root, might be
defined or overridden here, too.
In practice, for a concrete deployment generally one have to adapt both parts of the URL,
the (virtual) host and the context-root part and may use this file and e.g. apply it with
the overlay feature.
In case of an EAR, its components are declared inside {{$EAR/META-INF/application.xml}}.
For an web application, the {{context-root}} is defined here. I found, that this have
precedence to a {{$WAR/WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml}}. I don't expect this, but it might be
defined by JEE specifications in that way. If not, this feature request should be
converted to a bug report concerning a wrong preference order.
To my knowledge, at the moment this file seems the only way to set the {{virtual-host}} to
use. And this looks very inconsistent to me, because you have to use two different
"far-out" files to controll this very associated informations.
The informations in application.xml may be overridden and enriched by {{jboss-appl.xml}}
in a similar manner as with {{web.xml}} and {{jboss-web.xml}}. I would expect (and
suggest it as a feature) to define the virtual host here in an analogous way as the
context root in {{application.xml}} may be overriden here.
{code}
<module>
<web>
<web-uri>a.war</web-uri>
<context-root>/foo</context-root>
<virtual-host>a.domain.tld</virtual-host>
...
</web>
</module>
{code}
This concept should be probably expanded to the complete feature set controlled by the
{{jboss-web.xml}}, like undertow-related like {{server-instance}} or others like
{{security-domain}}.
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