Re: Remote access to Tomcat web server

From:

Lew <lew@nospam.lewscanon.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:44:35 -0400

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eliliano@libero.it wrote:

That's right. But I configured Apache (httpd.conf) in a while, without
reading any manual. It was easy, and the instructions are written in a
very intuitive fashion.
That's not true for Tomcat. I've already downloaded and read more than
twenty documentation pages, and I made all of the changes I think they
can be useful to the server.xml file: nothing... it doesn't still
work.

Tomcat can be tricky, but the minimal setup doesn't really need to be. I
actually found Web Server's configuration harder to learn than Tomcat's, but
learning styles vary.

Here's the Tomcat (6.0, but it's the same for 5.5) server.xml that I use. You
may want to use the default ports (8005, 8080, 8009, 8443) rather than the
changes I made. Not everything I use is required to make Tomcat work. YMMV.
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<Server port="9005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">

   <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener"
             SSLEngine="on" />
   <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JasperListener" />
   <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener" />
   <Listener
className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" />

   <GlobalNamingResources>
     <Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container"
               type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
               description="User database that can be updated and saved"
               factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"
               pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml"
               />
   </GlobalNamingResources>

   <Service name="Catalina">
     <Connector port="9080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
                connectionTimeout="20000"
                redirectPort="9443"
                />
     <Connector port="9009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="9443" />

     <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
       <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"
              resourceName="UserDatabase" />

       <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
             unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
             xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
       </Host>
     </Engine>
   </Service>
</Server>