Running Tomcat on an Apache Alias Or Map Port numbers to Hostnames

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I have WAMP installed with Apache at
port 80 and Tomcat installed at port 8080.
So, I access my php projects from
localhost/ and java projects at
localhost:8080/
Can I install or map Tomcat to a
better address like localhost/java/ or
betterstill a pseudoname like javahost instead of
localhost
I have added a line to the HOSTS
file

127.0.0.1:8080
            javahost

But that
doesn't work. And I cannot ping to javahost. I guess its not supposed to work that
way.

Is there a way
out?

WAMPSERVER 2 with APACHE
2.2.11

TOMCAT
6.0.29

WINDOWS XP PRO
SP3

Update:

Thanks
to @bindbn

I changed the hosts file
to

127.0.0.1
            javahost

I enabled
proxy module in Apache
Then added this to the end of the
httpd.conf

            javahost>
ProxyPreserveHost On

ProxyPass /
            http://localhost:8080

ProxyPassReverse /
            http://localhost:8080


            

From href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/examples.html" rel="nofollow
noreferrer">using Virtualhost & mod_proxy
together

Following which
javahost also loads the php website hosted at port 80 instead
of the localhost:8080
website.

Update

Found
this on the interwebs http://
confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF30/Using+Apache+with+mod_proxy

#
            Put this in the main section of your configuration (or desired virtual host, if using
            Apache virtual hosts)
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost
            On

#// changed to below.
            javahost:80>
 Order deny,allow
 Allow from
            all



ProxyPass /confluence
            http://localhost:8080/confluence 
ProxyPassReverse /confluence
            http://localhost:8080/confluence

 Order
            allow,deny
 Allow from
            all

Changing
confluence to java (and changing localhost:8080/confluence to to localhost:8080)gives me
@lladnar 's answer, which works well in redirecting localhost/java and javahost/java to
localhost:8080, but can this not be used to redirect ONLY
javahost to localhost:8080 and keep localhost to read from port
80?
I also changed the lines
to,

            javahost:80>
 Order deny,allow
 Allow from
            all


ProxyPass /
            http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse /
            http://localhost:8080/

Now
javahost redirects to localhost:8080 but localhost also redirects to localhost:8080 and
so I cannot access the localhost:80 port which houses my php website.

Where am I going wrong? Any
Ideas?

My aim is to redirect javahost
(or a different IP ) to localhost:8080, keeping localhost:80 accessible from localhost
and 127.0.0.1 and my pc's intranet IP

Updated with
Answer
This worked. I added this to the end of httpd.conf.
proxy module and proxy http module are on. My Workstation had a single LAN IP
(192.168.1.4). I added another IP(192.168.1.5) and used that IP instead of the javahost
name.Now 192.68.1.5 open my Tomcat website and 192.168.1.4 opens my PHP website.

            192.168.1.5>
ProxyPreserveHost On

ProxyPass /
            http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse /
            http://localhost:8080/


            

Thanks
to @Caleb for the idea of multiple IPs. Thanks to @lladnar and @bindbn for the Proxy
code!(I wish I could split the answer credit and since I have no rep(rep 6),
I cannot give any rep)

Problems
with current setup
Currently people on the intranet use http://
workstationname/ to access the intranet PHP website. They will
now have to use the ips for the JAVA and PHP website. Is there a way to bind a specific
hostname to a specific IP address

Answer

Your hosts file is for address lookups, not forcing routing to a specific
port.

You haven't specified your platform here,
so these are general possible
solutions:

1. Add
   a second IP address to your computer and bind apache to one and tomcat to another. Then
   you could use hosts to specify which one was which.


2. Setup
   an Alias in apache to forward to the other URL.


3. Setup
   your virtual hosts in apache so that it recognized different names (that you set in your
   hosts file) and forwards or proxies requests to tomcat if they are for the other
   host.