{"id":3505,"date":"2010-09-28T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T11:26:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:53:12","slug":"webgroup-virtual-host-not-defined-on-websphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=3505","title":{"rendered":"WebGroup \/ virtual host not defined on WebSphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I get the error<br \/>\n<code>SRVE0255E: A WebGroup\/Virtual Host to handle \/KillerApp has not been defined<\/code><br \/>\nThis is most often caused by me typing either the wrong port number (if no web server is configured) or a type in the context root of the web application. Currently following an internal course where I was supposed to deploy an app and find the url to it. According to what I know it should be http:\/\/localhost:9080\/KillerApp since the WC_defaulthost of server1 was 9080. But after many minutes of struggle I kept getting the error again and again&#8230;so then Google&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>IBM Redbook to the rescue, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbooks.ibm.com\/redpapers\/abstracts\/redp4309.html\">WebSphere Application Server V6.1: Web Container Problem Determination<\/a>&#8220;. It turned out to be a very simple, and also stupid solution on the problem. Stupid, since I had caused the problem myself. Some time ago I must have altered the default_host virtual host settings, so I had changed the host alias from 9080 to 9089.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coderanch.com\/t\/421300\/Websphere\/SRVE-WebGroup-Virtual-Host-handle\">This post at coderanch.com<\/a> helped me find the info, see the last comment to the issue. It references the redpiece, not the redbook, so use my link instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I get the error SRVE0255E: A WebGroup\/Virtual Host to handle \/KillerApp has not been defined This is most often caused by me typing either the wrong port number (if no web server is configured) or a type in the context root of the web application. Currently following an internal course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14100,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions\/14100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}