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Virtual Hosting under Tomcat - an example

Tomcat supports "Virtual hosting", where you can direct several domain names to the same server computer / instance of Tomcat, and it will serve different content depending on which server you have ...

More HowTo diagrams - MySQL, Tomcat and Java

Here are some more diagrams "off the wall" from last week - showing "howto" and "whatis" information for Tomcat, Java and MySQL Some Tomcat and Java Fundamentals On the right of the board ... the ...

Diagrams to show you how - Tomcat, Java, PHP

I like to work with a flipchart occasionally, and I have been doing so quite a bit this week, which is a week that I'm giving a wide ranging web server deployment course under Linux, covering both ...

WEB-INF (Tomcat) and .htaccess (httpd)

Apache Tomcat's WEB-INF directory is rather like Apache httpd's ".htxxxxx" files - they both contain data which is within the document directories, but is configuration data that's not directly ...

Increasing Java Virtual Machine memory for Tomcat

Q. "How do I increase the memory that my Java Virtual Machine in Tomcat can use?" A question asked - not for the first time - by a delegate on todays's Deploying Apache httpd and Tomcat course. A. ...

Default file (MiMe types) for Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat web server default MIME type What file extension maps to what "Mime Type" in Apache Tomcat? It's important to know, since the Mime type is sent out by the server to the browser to tell ...

Automatic startup and shutdown of Tomcat

Setting up Tomcat to shutdown and startup automatically when the Linux / Unix server restarts. The following is for Fedora Linux, with Tomcat installed at /usr/local/tomcat (probably via a symlink as ...

Extra public classes in deploying Apache httpd and Tomcat

We have just scheduled an additional two Deploying Apache httpd and Tomcat courses, to start on Monday 3rd and Wednesday 5th March 2008. This course is "flavour of the month" - I ran such a course ...

Load Balancing with Apache mod_jk (httpd/Tomcat)

A single instance of Apache httpd can handle a very large number of simple requests for files to be served ... but a single instance of Apache Tomcat can handle far fewer requests for applications to ...

Apache Tomcat Performance Tuning

Have you noticed what a lack of information there is in the printed material (or on the web too, come to that!) on performance tuning Apache Tomcat? The subject came up briefly during the course that ...

Apache, Tomcat, Jakarta, httpd, web server - what are they?

If someone says "Apache" to me, that's a warning - a warning to listen very carefully to what they're saying and evaluate what they mean; the term has changed - been used (and abused) over the years ...

Sharing the load with Apache httpd and perhaps Tomcat

"Can you show us how to share the load of a web site between various servers" is one of the question that comes up quite often on the more advanced web server configuration courses that we run. And, ...

Java 6, Apache Tomcat 6.

I greet new releases of software that we teach with a joy that the software is moving forward, but with an element of trepidation - "what's changed" I wonder. Although programming languages rarely ...

Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat together tips

Many sites run two web servers - Apache httpd is ideal for plain HTML documents and scripts / programs that are single pages, run rarely, not all linked in together. Whereas Tomcat is an application ...

Browser -> httpd -> Tomcat -> MySQL. Restarting.

I've just completed a course covering the installation and configuration of Apache httpd, Apache Tomcat and MySQL. Complete with a demonstration that has the newly installed systems visited from ...

Tomcat - Shutdown port

On a new installation of Tomcat (default config files), you'll notice that your server.xml file is set up with a shutdown port of 8005, and shutdown="SHUTDOWN". What does this mean? It means that ...

Apache httpd to Tomcat - jk v proxy

Many of our customers run both the Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat web servers - with good cause, since Tomcat is biased towards web applications where the same code is run many, many times over and ...

Why is Tomcat called Tomcat?

I'm doing an Apache httpd and Tomcat deployment course these two days, and I'm quite used to the "how come it's called Java" question but for some reason I've never been asked (and never had for find ...

Changing Tomcat's web.xml and reloading a web application

In the Tomcat Manager, does the "Reload" button on each application do just the same thing as "Stop" followed by "Start"? You might think so ... but, no, it doesn't. If you stop and restart your ...

Linking Apache httpd to Apache Tomcat

Current connectors are jk and proxy; jserv, warp and jk2 are deprecated. As well as httpd and Tomcat downloads, you'll need mod_jk and then you'll need to configure it. I've seen some long ...

Business is the predominant user of Tomcat, Perl and Tcl

I started using Open Source languages as a hobby about 10 years ago, but I became involved in them with my work ("Graham ... you know some Perl, don't you? .....") and these days I'm fortunate to earn ...