Tomcat
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 | JMX configuration | Example | Example |
| Increase PermGen | Example | Example | |
| War deployment through manager | Example | Example |
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/*
