Host-deploy

The <host-deploy> tag configures a host expansion directory like the web-app's webapps directory.

Essentially, it's an automatic directory for <host> tags with archive-path attributes.

For example, in the default resin.conf, if you drop a foo.jar in server.root/hosts, it will expand to hosts/foo and be browseable at http://www.foo.com.

It's also possible to create a Virtual Host without a .jar file by creating a directory in the hosts.

<resin xmlns="http://caucho.com/ns/resin">
  ...
  <server>
    <host-deploy host-name="www.${host.id}.com" path="hosts"/>
  </server>
  ... 
</resin>

attribute	description	default
path	The location for both expansion directories and archives	none
archive-directory	The location for archive (.jar) files	path
expand-directory	The directory where archives are expanded	path
host-name	An EL expression for auto-generated host names	none
expand-cleanup-fileset	List of files to delete on redeploy	delete entire archive
require-file	additional files which will force a reload	none
startup-mode	starting mode of deployed hosts	"automatic"
redeploy-mode	mode for checking an redeploying hosts	"automatic"
host-default	default configuration for all hosts	none