Tomcat Howto

Tomcat Howto

Blaine Simpson

<blaine.simpson@admc.com>

$Date: 2007/07/15 14:54:46 $

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Available formats for this document
Purpose
Support
Tomcat Versions Covered/Recommended
Changing Tomcat Versions

2. Tomcat Installation

Distributions

Tomcat Instances

Setting up Multiple Instances

Configuration

Shared Jar Files

HTTPD-to-Tomcat Plugins

Tomcat-side Plugin Configuration
httpd-server-side Plugin Configuration

Webapp Staging Directory

3. Starting a Tomcat Instance

Init script

4. Tomcat-Bundled Web Apps

Manager Webapp details
Admin Webapp details

5. Configuring Tomcat

Initial Instance Configuration

server.xml
tomcat-users.xml
server.xml

System Properties

Final Setup

J2EE Resources

Authentication user/role lists

Data Sources

6. Securing Tomcat's Administrative Web Apps

7. Tomcat Deployer Client

8. Tomcat Quirks

Typical run-time failures
Deployment failures
Manager webapp Quirks
Administrative App Quirks
Manual deployment failures
Tomcat is stuck!
Tomcat won't shut down!
Email Config Problems

List of Tables

1.1. Alternate formats of this document

List of Examples

2.1. workers.properties file
2.2. Make the default-server config the default virtual host
2.3. Typical httpd.conf directives
3.1. Multi-Tomcat-instance generic UNIX init script
6.1. SSL Connector Element
6.2. web.xml Element requiring SSL


		Chapter 1. Introduction