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.
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Load balancing and robustness - httpd, tomcat, PHP, Servlets, MySQL
Articles and tips on this subject | updated |
3018 | Tuning Apache httpd and Tomcat to work well together If you're running Tomcat as your servlet / JSP container, you're more than likely to have it (or them - you may have multiple instances) running as application servers behind Apache httpd (the Http server) or behind a pair of Http servers. That just like having a team of people providing a service (let's ... | 2010-10-28 (longest) |
2272 | Monitoring and loading tools for testing Apache Tomcat The following monitoring and loading tools can be used to test Apache Tomcat and are all Open Source. This comparative summary includes a link to more details of each of these resources.
ab - ApacheBench. Part of the standard Apache httpd download - a good but basic soak test where you can see how ... | 2009-07-07 |
1899 | 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 asked even though they're on the same computer.
Here is the important part of the server.xml file that ... | 2008-11-21 |
1718 | 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. Set the JAVA_OPTS environment variable. Longer answer:
If you're running on a Unix or Linux system, ... | 2008-07-25 |
1370 | 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 I completed yesterday, when we looked at the changing the heap sizes and number of threads, and selecting ... | 2007-10-02 |
282 | Short weekend Short weekend, short entry!
We've been so busy that I was only able to offer a customer who needed tailored Apache httpd - Tomcat - PHP - MySQL deployment training (with load balancing and fail over redundancy throughout) a Friday and Saturday slot. And today (Sunday) I'm spending the afternoon driving ... | 2006-06-05 (short) |
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Configuration files in the conf directory.
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web.xml.
Modifying your Jasper configuration.
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Logging Tomcat Activity.
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