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CYAN YELLOW MAGENTA BLACK PANTONE 123 CV EMPOWERING PRODUCTIVITY FOR THE JAVA™ DEVELOPER THE EXPERT’S VOICE® IN JAVA™ TECHNOLOGY Companion eBook Available Matthew Moodie, Pro Apache Tomcat 6 author of Pro Apache Tomcat 5/5.5 P Pro Apache Ant Dear Reader, r The lightweight, open source Apache Tomcat 6 servlet container is the refer- o ence implementation of the latest JSP™ 2.1 and Servlet 2.5 specifications, Kunal Mittal,author of which means it’s the first server to provide the new specifications’ features. This Pro Apache Beehive also makes it an incredibly popular choice as a web server—it has reached a A Pro Apache BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 significant level of maturity by being adopted by companies and organizations Unleashed from around the world. p Pro Apache Tomcat 6provides accurate, detailed information on how to work with Tomcat’s enterprise-class features out of the box for busy system a administrators and others using Tomcat 6. 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The source code for this book is available to readers at http://www.apress.comin the Source Code/Download section. 785000FM.qxd 2/28/07 11:23 AM Page iii To Laura 785000FM.qxd 2/28/07 11:23 AM Page iv 785000FM.qxd 2/28/07 11:23 AM Page v Contents at a Glance About the Author. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv About the Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii About the Technical Reviewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi ■ CHAPTER 1 IntroducingTomcat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ■ CHAPTER 2 InstallingTomcat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 ■ CHAPTER 3 ExaminingTomcat’sDirectories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 ■ CHAPTER 4 WorkingwithTomcat’sConfigurationFiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 ■ CHAPTER 5 AdministeringWebApplications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 ■ CHAPTER 6 UsingTomcat’sAdministrationTools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 ■ CHAPTER 7 ConfiguringTomcat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 ■ CHAPTER 8 UnderstandingTomcat’sClassLoaders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 ■ CHAPTER 9 UsingTomcat’sConnectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 ■ CHAPTER 10 ConnectingtoDatabasesUsingJDBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 ■ CHAPTER 11 WorkingwithUserAuthentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 ■ CHAPTER 12 Securing Tomcat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 ■ CHAPTER 13 Implementing Shared Tomcat Hosting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 ■ CHAPTER 14 Testing Tomcat’s Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 ■ APPENDIX Installing MySQL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 ■ INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 v 785000FM.qxd 2/28/07 11:23 AM Page vi 785000FM.qxd 2/28/07 11:23 AM Page vii Contents About the Author. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv About the Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii About the Technical Reviewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi ■ CHAPTER 1 Introducing Tomcat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 UnderstandingtheWebToday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 LookingBeyondCGI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 IntroducingJavaontheWeb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 AddingtoServlets:JavaServerPages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 IntroducingServletContainers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 LookingatTomcat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 What’sNewinTomcat6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 UnderstandingTomcat’sArchitecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Top-LevelComponents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 TheConnectorComponents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 TheContainerComponents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 TheNestedComponents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 ■ CHAPTER 2 Installing Tomcat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 InstallingJava . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 InstallingJavaonWindows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 InstallingJavaonLinux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 InstallingTomcat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 InstallingTomcatonWindowsUsingtheInstaller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 InstallingTomcatonWindowsUsingtheZippedFile. . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 InstallingTomcatonLinuxorMacOS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 ViewingtheDefaultInstallation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 RunningTomcatwiththeServerOption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 InstallingAnt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 InstallingTomcatfromSource. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 vii 785000FM.qxd 2/28/07 11:23 AM Page viii viii ■ CONTENTS TroubleshootingandTips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 TheTomcatWindowDisappears. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 ThePortNumberIsinUse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 ■ CHAPTER 3 Examining Tomcat’s Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 LookingatCATALINA_HOME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 ThebinDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 TheconfDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 ThelogsDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 ThelibDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 ThetempDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 ThewebappsDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 TheworkDirectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 UnderstandingWebApplicationStructure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 WebApplicationContext. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 TheWEB-INFDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 TheMETA-INFDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 ■ CHAPTER 4 Working with Tomcat’s Configuration Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 ExaminingTomcat’sConfigurationFiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Usingcatalina.policyforAccessControl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Usingcatalina.propertiestoConfigureTomcat’sClassLoaders. . . . . . . . 39 Usingserver.xmltoConfigureTomcat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 ConfiguringaServer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 ConfiguringGlobalNamingResources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 ConfiguringaService . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 ConfiguringaConnector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 ConfiguringanEngine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 TomcatLogging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 ConfiguringaRealm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 ConfiguringaHost. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 ConfiguringaValve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 ConfiguringaListener. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 ConfiguringanAlias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 UnderstandingAuthenticationandthetomcat-users.xmlFile . . . . . . . . . 64 785000FM.qxd 2/28/07 11:23 AM Page ix ■ CONTENTS ix ConfiguringWebApplicationDefaultswithweb.xml. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 DefaultServletDefinitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 MatchingURLs:ServletMappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 ConfiguringSessionTimeout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 ConfiguringMIMEMappings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 ConfiguringWelcomeFiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 ChangingServiceOptionsonWindows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 ■ CHAPTER 5 Administering Web Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 ConfiguringContexts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 ConfiguringDefaultContexts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 TheContextElement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 ConfiguringaParameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 ConfiguringaResourceLink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 ExaminingaWebApplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 MappingURLstoResources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 ExaminingtheWEB-INFFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Examiningtheweb.xmlFile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 <distributable> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 <context-param> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 <filter> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 <filter-mapping>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 <servlet> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 <servlet-mapping>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 <session-config> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 <mime-mapping>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 <welcome-file-list> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 <error-page>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 <resource-env-ref> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 <resource-ref> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 <security-constraint>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 <login-config>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 <security-role>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

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The source code for this book is available to readers at http://www.apress.comin the Source Code/Download section. 785000FM.qxd 2/28/07 11:23 AM Page iii To Laura 785000FM.qxd 2/28/07 11:23 AM Page iv 785000FM.qxd 2/28/07 11:23 AM Page v Contents at a Glance About the Author. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv About the Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii About the Technical Reviewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi ■ CHAPTER 1 IntroducingTomcat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ■ CHAPTER 2 InstallingTomcat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 ■ CHAPTER 3 ExaminingTomcat’sDirectories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 ■ CHAPTER 4 WorkingwithTomcat’sConfigurationFiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 ■ CHAPTER 5 AdministeringWebApplications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 ■ CHAPTER 6 UsingTomcat’sAdministrationTools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 ■ CHAPTER 7 ConfiguringTomcat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 ■ CHAPTER 8 UnderstandingTomcat’sClassLoaders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 ■ CHAPTER 9 UsingTomcat’sConnectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 ■ CHAPTER 10 ConnectingtoDatabasesUsingJDBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 ■ CHAPTER 11 WorkingwithUserAuthentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 ■ CHAPTER 12 Securing Tomcat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 ■ CHAPTER 13 Implementing Shared Tomcat Hosting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 ■ CHAPTER 14 Testing Tomcat’s Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 ■ APPENDIX Installing MySQL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 ■ INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 v 785000FM.qxd 2/28/07 11:23 AM Page vi 785000FM.qxd 2/28/07 11:23 AM Page vii Contents About the Author. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv About the Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii About the Technical Reviewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi ■ CHAPTER 1 Introducing Tomcat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 UnderstandingtheWebToday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 LookingBeyondCGI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 IntroducingJavaontheWeb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 AddingtoServlets:JavaServerPages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 IntroducingServletContainers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 LookingatTomcat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 What’sNewinTomcat6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 UnderstandingTomcat’sArchitecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Top-LevelComponents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 TheConnectorComponents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 TheContainerComponents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 TheNestedComponents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 ■ CHAPTER 2 Installing Tomcat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 InstallingJava . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 InstallingJavaonWindows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 InstallingJavaonLinux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 InstallingTomcat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 InstallingTomcatonWindowsUsingtheInstaller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 InstallingTomcatonWindowsUsingtheZippedFile. . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 InstallingTomcatonLinuxorMacOS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 ViewingtheDefaultInstallation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 RunningTomcatwiththeServerOption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 InstallingAnt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 InstallingTomcatfromSource. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 vii 785000FM.qxd 2/28/07 11:23 AM Page viii viii ■ CONTENTS TroubleshootingandTips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 TheTomcatWindowDisappears. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 ThePortNumberIsinUse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 ■ CHAPTER 3 Examining Tomcat’s Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 LookingatCATALINA_HOME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 ThebinDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 TheconfDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 ThelogsDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 ThelibDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 ThetempDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 ThewebappsDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 TheworkDirectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 UnderstandingWebApplicationStructure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 WebApplicationContext. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 TheWEB-INFDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 TheMETA-INFDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 ■ CHAPTER 4 Working with Tomcat’s Configuration Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 ExaminingTomcat’sConfigurationFiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Usingcatalina.policyforAccessControl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Usingcatalina.propertiestoConfigureTomcat’sClassLoaders. . . . . . . . 39 Usingserver.xmltoConfigureTomcat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 ConfiguringaServer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 ConfiguringGlobalNamingResources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 ConfiguringaService . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 ConfiguringaConnector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 ConfiguringanEngine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 TomcatLogging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 ConfiguringaRealm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 ConfiguringaHost. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 ConfiguringaValve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 ConfiguringaListener. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 ConfiguringanAlias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 UnderstandingAuthenticationandthetomcat-users.xmlFile . . . . . . . . . 64 785000FM.qxd 2/28/07 11:23 AM Page ix ■ CONTENTS ix ConfiguringWebApplicationDefaultswithweb.xml. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 DefaultServletDefinitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 MatchingURLs:ServletMappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 ConfiguringSessionTimeout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 ConfiguringMIMEMappings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 ConfiguringWelcomeFiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 ChangingServiceOptionsonWindows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 ■ CHAPTER 5 Administering Web Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 ConfiguringContexts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 ConfiguringDefaultContexts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 TheContextElement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 ConfiguringaParameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 ConfiguringaResourceLink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 ExaminingaWebApplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 MappingURLstoResources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 ExaminingtheWEB-INFFolder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Examiningtheweb.xmlFile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 <distributable> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 <context-param> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 <filter> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 <filter-mapping>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 <servlet> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 <servlet-mapping>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 <session-config> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 <mime-mapping>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 <welcome-file-list> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 <error-page>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 <resource-env-ref> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 <resource-ref> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 <security-constraint>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 <login-config>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 <security-role>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

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