Make tomcat redirect to another server with the same domain

Question

I have a domain name and a tomcat server so when I deploy an application on it, this is accesible via my.domain.com/MyApp and everything is fine.

The problem is that I have some applications I can't deploy on my tomcat server and i think i'll have to make another tomcat server to deploy them and when I type my.domain.com/MyNEWApp I want to be redirected to the new server but i don't know how to do it or if there is a better solution for my problem.

Answer 1

Place your Tomcats behind a content-switching load balancer or a reverse proxy (e.g. Apache with mod_proxy, mod_jk or mod_cluster) and point the my.domain.com domain to the LB. Then on the LB, route traffic to respective Tomcats based on the context root.