Jetty: set up general host

Question

How can i force Jetty to open all deployed webapps starting from specific virtual host like test.localhost:8080/myapp instead of localhost:8181/myapp?

Here's snippet from jetty.xml:

<Call name="addConnector">
        <Arg>
            <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.nio.SelectChannelConnector">
                <Set name="host">
                    <Property name="jetty.host"/>
               </Set>
                <Set name="port">
                    <Property name="jetty.port" default="8181"/>
                </Set>
                ...

... i tried to play with jetty.host value but still no success. :(

How to?

Answer 1

To LISTEN on a specific network interface, you specify that interface either via its IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) or its hostname.

Since this is a variant of localhost / loopback, then using IP address would be best.

Eg:

$ grep localhost /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
127.0.1.0   test.localhost

Yes, those hosts are on different IPs, intentionally (and valid for the loopback interface).

You could then setup the connector, using the jetty-distribution, for test.localhost:8080 by using the command line (this is jetty 9 syntax)

$ java -jar /path/to/start.jar jetty.host=127.0.1.0 jetty.port=8080

You can also put those command line options into your ${jetty.base}/start.ini as separate lines.

$ grep -E "jetty\.(host|port)" /path/to/my.base/start.ini
jetty.host=127.0.1.0
jetty.port=8080

Once jetty is started, you can see what interface it is listening on

$ netstat -tlnp | grep 8080
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
 will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
tcp4       0      0 127.0.1.0:8080          :::*         LISTEN      14480/java