Web Application Deployment - Configuring and Controlling Tomcat

Web Application Deployment module A654

Configuring and Controlling Tomcat

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module A654. This topic is presented on public courses Deploying Apache and Tomcat, Deploying Java Applications on Linux / Unix

Deploying Apache and Tomcat - training course - How to source, install, configure and support Apache httpd and Tomcat for the deployment of Java Web Applications.

Deploying Apache and Tomcat - How to source, install, configure and support Apache httpd and Tomcat for the deployment of Java Web Applications. This ...

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Deploying Java applications on Linux and Unix - training course - Learn to install and support applications under Linux/Unix with Apache, Tomcat and MySQL

Deploying Java applications on Linux and Unix - Learn to install and support applications under Linux/Unix with Apache, Tomcat and MySQL This course is ...

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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 ...

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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". ...

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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 ...

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Compressing web pages sent out from server. Is it worth it?

Web servers can compress .html and similar files before they send them out - a great way to keep traffic volume down where bandwidth is more of a consideration ...

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A practical example of roles

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In this module, you'll learn how to automate the start-up and shutdown of Tomcat, how the configurations files work, and how to use the Admin and Manager applications to control users, roles, resources and individual web applications.

This topic is presented on public courses Deploying Apache and Tomcat, Deploying Java Applications on Linux / Unix

Examples from our training material

6_context.xml	Tomcat 6 - sample context.xml
6_server.xml	Tomcat 6 - sample server.xml file
6_tomcat-users.xml	Sample tomcat_users.xml for Tomcat 6
6_web.xml	Sample web.xml for Tomcat 6
tomcat	Tomcat 5 startup script for /etc/init.d and chkconfig use

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Private course - deploying Java applications with Tomcat

Background information

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Topics covered in this module

Switching Tomcat to another (OS) user account.
Automatic start-up and shutdown.
On Windows.
The server.xml configuration file.
Running Tomcat as your only (or main) web server.
The Manager and Admin application.
The Manager Application.
The Admin Application.
Admin Groups.
Changing TomcatÕs home page.
Tomcat documentation.
Other sources.

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