Tomcat, servlets & domain names

[Ike]

In order to run a Tomcat server to run servlets, I must have a registered
domain name. However, if I only have an IP address, what servlet container
would people here recommend in lieu of Tomcat (and what are the drawbacks
compared to Tomcat) ?

Thanks, Ike

 

[Manish Pandit]

No you don't need a registered DNS unless you want to host it on the
web.

You need a machine that can run tomcat. For localhost, you dont even
need an internet connection. You access it via http://<IP or
FQDN>:<port>

-cheers,
Manish

 

[Simon Brooke]

In order to run a Tomcat server to run servlets, I must have a registered
domain name.

No you don't. You can use the IP address of the machine, or you can resolve
a name to the IP address of the machine in your hosts file. What version
of Tomcat, and what operating system?

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[Ike]

but I do want to host it on the web, behind apache -Ike

 

[Ike]

Tomcat 5.0.28 and Windows XP
-Ike

 

[Simon Brooke]

Tomcat 5.0.28 and Windows XP

I can't help you very much with Windows, but certainly older versions of
Windows had a hosts file in \Windows\System or somewhere like that. It's a
text file, where each line comprises an IP address followed by whitespace
followed by a space-separated list of one or more names. The names in the
list resolve to the address; simple as that.

The address 127.0.0.1 is special; it is always a valid address for 'this
machine' and conventionally the name 'localhost' resolves to 127.0.0.1; so
even if your IP address is dynamically allocated by DHCP you can use
127.0.0.1 (or 'localhost', or another name you've set up for 127.0.0.1 in
your hosts file) for testing.

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[IchBin]

I can't help you very much with Windows, but certainly older versions of
Windows had a hosts file in \Windows\System or somewhere like that. It's a
text file, where each line comprises an IP address followed by whitespace
followed by a space-separated list of one or more names. The names in the
list resolve to the address; simple as that.

The address 127.0.0.1 is special; it is always a valid address for 'this
machine' and conventionally the name 'localhost' resolves to 127.0.0.1; so
even if your IP address is dynamically allocated by DHCP you can use
127.0.0.1 (or 'localhost', or another name you've set up for 127.0.0.1 in
your hosts file) for testing.

That host file on windows XP SP 2 resides here:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\etc\hosts

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[Mark Space]

That host file on windows XP SP 2 resides here:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\etc\hosts

But that won't help outside of his own system.

To the OP: Where did you put the DNS entry for your domain? Who is
doing DNS for you?