We humans are inherently lazy. We want to duplicate ourselves so that we don't work. However, our clones will eliminate us one beautiful day and govern the world on their own. I am sure we ourselves did the same to those who wrote our DNA code. Whatever, here I am not going to clone anybody. I only want to automate the boring sequence of commands that I type in my terminal every time I want to build my project, deploy it to any chosen local tomcat server and finally open the deployed application in my favorite browser.
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In the previous post we showed how to set up virtual hosts on Apache 2 server to host a PHP application. In this post we are going to be focused on Apache Tomcat Server for hosting JAVA web applications. First you have to download Tomcat from https://tomcat.apache.org/.
In this post I am going to show how to set up an apache virtual host for my www.market.local web project that I am going to use afterwards. For that purpose I am going to use my laptop that runs ubuntu. Every operating system has its own hosts file that is used to map hostnames to not that human-friendly numeric IP addresses. The hosts file allows to configure the domain name system (DNS) locally.