Questions tagged [tomcat]
Apache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies released under the Apache License version 2. The Tomcat project started at Sun Microsystems and was donated by Sun to the Apache Software Foundation in 1999.
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difference between _default_:* and *:* in VirtualHost Context
I want to know the difference between "default:*" and "*:*" in VirtualHost Context.
<VirtualHost _default_:*>
#...
ServerName host.example.com
#...
</VirtualHost>
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What's the maximum URL length in Tomcat?
And is it configurable? Can I set up Tomcat so that a URL with, say, 200K of query params goes through successfully to the contained servlet?
Yes, I know one should use POST when you have lots of ...
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How to Exclude an URL for Apache Mod_proxy?
We have two Apache server as front-end and 4 tomcat server as back-end configured using mod_proxy module as load balancer. Now, we want to exclude an single tomcat url from the mod_proxy load balancer....
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Where to set java heap options (e.g. -Xmx) for Tomcat 6 under Ubuntu 9.04?
I'm running Tomcat using the tomcat6 package from Ubuntu 9.04, which makes a daemon out of Tomcat using jsvc. I'd like to know the proper way to set Java heap options like -Xmx for Tomcat. I'd like to ...
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Where are my Tomcat Logs?
I installed Tomcat6 on a Ubuntu 9.04 server using apt-get install tomcat6. I uploaded a WAR using the manager interface and tried to start the application but get a pretty generic error on the Web ...
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Is it a Best Industry practice to restart web servers periodically? [closed]
We have a web application (developed by a third party) that runs on Tomcat. We have been getting very bad performance from the application. The application developer is claiming that it is an ...
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How do I disable tomcat caching? I'm having weird static file problems
How do I prevent tomcat from caching? I have css and basic html files that I load and use via ajax, and unless I restart tomcat, the changes do not seem to reflect. Different machines, different ...
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Configure nginx for jboss/tomcat
In order to pass traffic to JBoss/TomCat on port 80 using Apache we used to install and configure mod_jk.
Is there an equivalent for nginx? Basically want all port 80 traffic to be passed to jboss.
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How to configure Tomcat to only listen to 127.0.0.1?
The environment is Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS running Tomcat 6 and Apache 2.2 from the repos. Apache is configured to proxy requests to Tomcat, so I really want to turn off Tomcat listening to requests on ...
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What's the redirect port for in Tomcat?
It's hard to make sense of tomcat documentation and looking at server.xml you will find a salad of ports that may be hard to understand because it's not really explained properly, or extensively, in ...
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Why does tomcat like deleting my context.xml file?
I'm developing a web-based Java application at work and (obviously) have to run it locally during development. I've figured out the Tomcat docs and have a suitable context.xml file in /etc/tomcat6/...
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Load-balancer options [closed]
I am looking at a number of possible options for load-balancing.
So far, I am constrained to the following options:
DNS server load-balancer, balancing to a cluster of tomcat servers, with ...
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Can you use Redirect and Proxypass at the same time
I am using Apache 2.2.15 on CentOS to provide SSL for a TomCat application.
ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8090/ connectiontimeout=300 timeout=300
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8090
This works ...
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Unable to connect to mysql through JDBC connector through Tomcat or externally
I've installed a stock mysql 5.5 installation, and while I can connect to the mysql service via the mysql command, and the service seems to be running, I cannot connect to it through spring+tomcat or ...
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Apache+Tomcat having problems communicating. Unclear error messages. Bringing down websites hosted under Tomcat
Setup:
Fedora 8
Apache 2.2.8
Tomcat 5.5.8
Apache is forwarding requests using AJP.
Problem:
After a certain period of time (no constant at all, can be between an hour or two, or one or more days) ...
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Why does tomcat7 log into both catalina.out and catalina.YYYY-MM-DD.log?
On OpenBSD 5.2, the default installation of tomcat-7.0.29 seems to be logging all errors into both catalina.out and catalina.YYYY-MM-DD.log.
Cns# ll /var/tomcat/logs/catalina.*
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How do I disable SSLv3 support in Apache Tomcat?
I am trying to reconfigure my Apache Tomcat server to only use TLSv1. However, it is still falling back to SSLv3 using certain browsers.
I setup the <connector> tag with the following settings:
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How do I use non-plaintext passwords for Tomcat users?
On Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, after installing Tomcat 6, the way to add a manager / admin account is to add a record like this to /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml:
<role rolename="manager"/>
<role ...
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Apache Tomcat chokes after 300 connections
We have an apache webserver in front of Tomcat hosted on EC2, instance type is extra large with 34GB memory.
Our application deals with lot of external webservices and we have a very lousy external ...
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How do I start Apache Tomcat at boot on Mac OS X?
I observed that there is no full guide for installing tomcat on OS X that will include setting it up to start at boot time.
Here is the quick guide:
install macports
suport port upgrade
sudo port ...
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Can Tomcat reload its SSL certificate without being restarted?
I have a background process that can update the keystore Tomcat uses for its SSL credentials. I would like to be able to have Tomcat reload this automatically without needing a manual restart.
Is ...
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Configure Tomcat to use a different temp directory for file uploads
My Tomcat instance is sitting on a drive with little remaining space. The application I'm running does move file uploads off the server and into a NAS. During the upload, however, Tomcat keeps this ...
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Edit "server.xml" in Tomcat without restarting server?
I edited the "server.xml" file in Tomcat 8’s conf folder. I added a new Host tag for a new web site.
Must I restart the Tomcat server?
Can I get Tomcat to parse and apply the newly edited server....
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is it really necessary to run Apache as a front-end to Glassfish/JBoss/Tomcat?
I'm primarily a Java developer, and I come to you with a question that straddles the divide between developers and sysadmins.
Years ago, when it was a novel thing to run Tomcat as an app server, it ...
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Alternatives to Apache
Our current stack is Apache + Tomcat + MySQL, using ProxyPass AJP to fire requests from Apache to Tomcat. We also run PHP for Wordpress on the same sites, and so need working .htaccess files. In ...
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Why doesn't the aws cloud formation install the packages that I specify?
I'm very new to the AWS services. I'm trying to use the AWS cloud formation and I created a template. The template is error free and I am able to create machines using that.
But I have added some ...
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Controlling tomcat with supervisor
Is there a way to "gracefully" shutdown tomcat when controlling via supervisor?
My understanding is Tomcat's shutdown.sh script talks to tomcat on the shutdown port to initiate a graceful shutdown. ...
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Disallowing HTTP methods on Tomcat is case sensitive?
I have put the following in the web.xml of my application to attempt to disallow PUT, DELETE, etc.:
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>restricted ...
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Apache httpd error "proxy: ap_get_scoreboard_lb" with ProxyPass
I set up apache to proxy for tomcat but I am getting the following error when I target the page. I sometimes get a blank page or a 503:
[Error]
[Mon Dec 03 04:58:16 2012] [error] proxy: ...
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Open source tomcat log viewer
I'm managing several tomcat instances (aprox 30-35) and looking for some console to centralize the logs.
I tried php-syslog-ng before (no with tomcat), and found it useful. I would like that these ...
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Tomcat 7 trailing slash issue with webapps
Recently I upgraded my tomcat server from 6.x version to the most recent 7.x version.
I came up with little trouble, hoping to get help.
I have an application calls MyApp
On tomcat6, when I went to ...
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Tomcat 8 org.apache.catalina.webresources.Cache.getResource
I have just upgraded from 7.0.52 to 8.0.14.
I am getting this for lots of static image files:
org.apache.catalina.webresources.Cache.getResource Unable to add the
resource at [/base/1325/WA6144-...
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Configure IIS 7 Reverse Proxy to connect to TeamCity Tomcat
We have an IIS 7 webserver configured and would like to create a reverse proxy for a TeamCity installation using Tomcat on the same machine.
The IIS server site is https://somesite and I would like ...
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Good Free Tomcat Log Analyser? [closed]
Could someone recommend a good and free program for analysing Apache Tomcat logs. I don't need real-time analysis or anything like that. I have a log and I just want a quick and easy way to get some ...
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Keytool SubjectAlternativeName
I'm trying to get the certificates just right for our Jira/Confluence deployments in house. People access them differently, either from the hostname or the FQDN. I'm using Java 7's keytool so I have ...
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Make Tomcat use X-Real-IP
I'm configuring nginx as a reverse proxy in front of Tomcat 7. I added the following lines to nginx configuration:
set_real_ip_from 127.0.0.1;
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location / {
proxy_pass http://tomcat;
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How Do I Install Gerrit Under Tomcat with LDAP?
I'm trying to find good instructions for installing Gerrit under Tomcat with LDAP support. I need this installed on a Windows 2008 Server, preferably. However, I can opt for Linux if not possible.
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How to block access to a file from being served by Tomcat?
We have a few tomcat servers and we just discovered that some files that we don't want public to have access to those files. To exemplify:
Let say we have a folder /var/www/html/ that we are ...
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What exactly is going on when I go to localhost:8080 in my web browser? (Apache Tomcat)
I've spent my career doing all local application programming (C++ applications and whatnot). I'm trying to dig my feet into the web world now, however. I'm using Eclipse (Mars) and Apache Tomcat 8.0....
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Restart a single tomcat 7 webapp at a specific time?
Tomcat 7 is running on a Windows System. I need to restart one of the deployed web applications each day at a specific time.
Is there an option to do that via script or (even better) does tomcat offer ...
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How to compress and clean logs with logrotate but not rotate them
I have a Tomcat server which create access logs via a valve (org.apache.catalina.valves.FastCommonAccessLogValve). This valve takes care of rotating the access log file, but not of compressing them ...
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Tomcat7 hangs on deploying apps
I'm having some very strange behavior in Tomcat 7 on Ubuntu 14.04.
I created a new VPS, installed default-jdk and other simple stuff. Downloaded and unpacked Tomcat 7. Checked that it runs on [myIP]:...
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Tomcat won't start - how to check that port 8080 is not in use
Tomcat won't start, and it has worked perfectly before. I suspect something else is running on port 8080. I am running Windows Vista. How do I check that nothing else is using port 8080?
I have ...
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selinux is preventing from execute access on the file centos
I want to launch the Tomcat service on CentOS with the cmdlet :
systemctl start tomcat.service
but i get the error
Failed to start Apache ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
(code=exited, status=...
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What steps should I take to secure Tomcat 6.x?
I am in the process of setting up an new Tomcat deployment, and want it to be as secure as possible.
I have created a 'jakarta' user and have jsvc running Tomcat as a daemon. Any tips on directory ...
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Tomcat Parallel Deployment, automatically undeploy old applications
I've been using Tomcat 8's Parallel Deployment as part of a zero-downtime continuous deployment setup for a while now.
When the test gauntlet has been run, the CI server automatically renames the ....
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Firewall trouble when deploying Tomcat at CentOS
I am trying to deploy a Tomcat server in a CentOS environment, but it is not receiving requests.
Executing startup.sh works properly and the logs show that tomcat is running
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mod_proxy_ajp (70007)The timeout specified has expired: ajp_ilink_receive() can't receive header
I am using mod_proxy_ajp with Tomcat and I receive the following error:
(70007)The timeout specified has expired: ajp_ilink_receive() can't
receive header
How do I fix this?
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How can I configure TomCat Java options in a config file?
I'm trying to configure Java options passed into TomCat for a 3rd party application that I'm deploying. The instructions that the app provides are:
Open the Tomcat configuration tool from the ...
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How get I the Tomcat AJP-Connectors working?
I want to access Tomcat through the Apache-webserver using connectors. I sticked to the documentation: http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/generic_howto/quick.html
I only modified it a little to ...
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