How to Add a Host Alias to Tomcat

If you want to add additional domain aliases to your Mura Tomcat instance you will need to add a custom alias element to your application's {Tomcat}/conf/server.xml <Alias> element.  By default the Tomcat <Host> element defined in your server.xml looks like this:

      <Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
            unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
            xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
      </Host>
 

To add an additional host alias you simply add a nested <Alias> element to the above <Host> element example.

      <Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
            unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
            xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
            <Alias>example.mura.local</Alias>
      </Host>

In addition, you will need to configure a site within your Mura instance to be bound to the new Tomcat custom host alias.  This is done wihin Mura's site settings by either setting it as a site's domain or domain alias.