Tomcat

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Tomcat is a Java servlet container, it can be used to display simple JSP and run Spring applications.

However, it cannot run JavaEE, you'll need a proper application server such IBM WAS, Glassfish, Jboss, etc. to do so.



Installation Server configuration Application configuration Other
Linux apt-get setup Users management MySQL datasource Apache 2 - proxy
Linux manual setup UTF-8
Linux Tomcat on boot IPv4 over IPv6 Example Example
Windows setup Server access restriction
JMX configuration
Increase PermGen
War deployment through manager



Basic tasks

Files location

The applications files are in $Tomcat/webapps

  • Automatic installation: /var/lib/tomcat/webapps

Remove old temp files

In case of bugs, you can remove the working directory: $Tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost/*

rm -Rf /var/lib/tomcat7/work/Catalina/localhost/*

Server access

http://server:8080