Web Application Deployment - More Tomcat Configuration

Web Application Deployment module A656

More Tomcat Configuration

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module A656. This topic is presented on public courses Deploying Apache and Tomcat, Deploying Java Applications on Linux / Unix

In this module, we look deeper into the Tomcat configuration files and see the real information that's there between examples that are provided in such profusion that they may frighten the first time deployer.

Related technical and longer articles

Load balancing and robustness - httpd, tomcat, PHP, Servlets, MySQL

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Examples from our training material

Store6.java	Store class, used to maintain state in JSP demo
index.jsp	A Shopping cart JSP that maintains state
products.txt	Product data for Shopping cart demo
server.xml	Sample server.xml file
web.xml	Session timeout changed to 120 minutes

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Apache Tomcat - clustering and load balancing

Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from [here].

Topics covered in this module

Configuration files in the conf directory.
server.xml.
web.xml.
Modifying your Jasper configuration.
Realms.
Logging Tomcat Activity.
Adding and tailoring access logs.
Applications that log.
Sessions.

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