Table of Contents

Preface 1. Getting Started with Tomcat Installing Tomcat Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Tomcat Automatic Startup Testing Your Tomcat Installation 2. Configuring Tomcat Using the Apache Web Server Managing Realms, Roles, and Users Controlling Sessions Accessing JNDI and JDBC Resources Servlet Auto-Reloading Relocating the Web Applications Directory Customized User Directories Tomcat Example Applications Server-Side Includes Common Gateway Interface (CGI) The Tomcat Admin Application 3. Deploying Servlet and JSP Web Applications in Tomcat Layout of a Web Application Manual Application Deployment Automatic Deployment The Manager Application Automation with Jakarta Ant 4. Tomcat Performance Tuning Measuring Web Server Performance External Tuning Internal Tuning Capacity Planning Additional Resources 5. Integration with Apache Web Server Introduction The Pros and Cons of Integration Installing Apache httpd Apache Integration with Tomcat Of Connectors and Configuration Files Summary 6. Tomcat Security Introduction Securing the System Multiple Server Security Models Using the -security Option Setting Up a Tomcat chroot Jail Filtering Bad User Input Securing Tomcat with SSL 7. Configuration Files and Their Elements server.xml web.xml tomcat-users.xml catalina.policy 8. Debugging and Troubleshooting Reading Log Files URLs and the HTTP Conversation Debugging with RequestDumperValve When Tomcat Won't Shut Down 9. Building Tomcat from Source Installing Jakarta Ant Obtaining the Source Downloading Support Libraries Building Tomcat 10. Tomcat Clustering Clustering Terms The Communication Sequence of an HTTP Request Additional Resources 11. Final Words Supplemental Resources Community A. Installing Java B. JSPs and Servlets C. jbchroot.c D. BadInputFilterValve.java Index

About the Author

Jason Brittain is a Senior Software Engineer at CollabNet Inc. where he works on collaborative software project hosting infrastructure software made up of more than 50 open source software package codebases. Jason's specialties include dynamic web development, Java application servers, high availability and fault tolerance, clustering, and Jakarta Ant build systems. He has contributed to many Apache Jakarta projects and has been an active open source software developer for several years. Ian F. Darwin has worked in the computer industry for three decades: with Unix since 1980, Java since 1995, and OpenBSD since 1998. He wrote the freeware file(1) command used on Linux and BSD and is the author of Checking C Programs with Lint, Java Cookbook, and over seventy articles and several courses (both university and commercial) on C and Unix. In addition to programming and consulting, Ian teaches Unix, C, and Java for Learning Tree International, one of the world's largest technical training companies. He runs OpenBSD on most of his computers, and he runs a mirror of The Unix History Society archive.