Re: Apache authentication information (remoteuser) not visible in Tomcat

Hi Robert, Thanks for the response. So I've come to believe that its possible to avoid using Tomcat authentication altogether, i.e., without specifying realms and using tomcat user/roles in an application's web.xml. Given my context (a University environment with over several hundreds of stud

Re: Apache authentication information (remoteuser) not visible in Tomcat

Hi Robert, Thanks for the response. So I've come to believe that its possible to avoid using Tomcat authentication altogether, i.e., without specifying realms and using tomcat user/roles in an application's web.xml. Given my context (a University environment with over several hundreds of stud

Re: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

it does. And if it didn't "jar uf" is broken, I would think. On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 15:20 -0600, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote: > better check your Jar to make sure it has the MyServletException.class > file still in it. > > Filip > > Dave Sailer wrote: > > I have a webapp that is working but I

Re: Tomcat 6 and log4j for a web application

for tomcat container logging, its easy 1. put log4j.jar in TC_HOME/lib 2. put log4j.properties in TC_HOME/lib 3. compile the extras ant -f extras.xml 4. replace TC_HOME/bin/tomcat-juli.jar with the one compiled from step 3 5. put extras//tomcat-juli-adapters.jar in TC_HOME/lib and that's i

Re: Tomcat 6 and log4j for a web application

I would like both one /lib/log4j.properties for the main Tomcat container logging and another log4j for each web apps - where you set its log filename and rotation etc... The tomcat logging would be of interest to an admin and the web app logs to the developer. Do I make sense? Tx - Fred

Re: [OT] Session replication vs stateless

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lightbulb, lightbulb432 wrote: > How are you designing your current applications, and what > implications has the choice that you might not have expected - would > you do anything differently if you could? (For the record, I am not using session repl

Re: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

better check your Jar to make sure it has the MyServletException.class file still in it. Filip Dave Sailer wrote: I have a webapp that is working but I wanted to update a servlet jar so: jar uf MyJar.jar net/whohah/portal/servlet/MyServlet.class cp MyJar.jar $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT/WEB-IN

Re: Tomcat 6 and log4j for a web application

if you want to use log4j in your application only, then forget everything you read on logging.html all you need to do is log4j.jar in WEB-INF/lib log4j.properties in WEB-INF/classes the steps you are outlining, are converting tomcat from using java.util.logging to log4j for the container. and y

Re: [OT] Session replication vs stateless

I'd go the opposite direction, I will do stateless before attempting any kind of replication or distributed cache. The scalability of a stateless application will outscale any replicated app any day, since your fail over options are so much more simplified. Filip Dwayne wrote: Have you consid

Re: Tomcat6, apache2, mod_jk, non-APR, windows 2000, slow server startup with unpacked WAR

Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Filip, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote: Mentioning WatchedResource is a red herring. reloadable attribute -> nothing to do with reloadable apps I disagree: "relodable ( attribute) Set to true if you want

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

I have a webapp that is working but I wanted to update a servlet jar so: jar uf MyJar.jar net/whohah/portal/servlet/MyServlet.class cp MyJar.jar $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib No I get the exception shown below. I have MyServlet stripped down so the only imports are: import java.io.*; i

Tomcat 6 and log4j for a web application

Hi, still reading :-) http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/logging.html I have setup log4j as above, but with a little twist. If you permission $CATALINA_HOME as read only and you want to customize the log4j.properties then you need to install the log4j1.2.14.jar and log4j.properties in $CAT

Re: [OT] Session replication vs stateless

Have you considered distributed caching for session replication? I avoid stateless like the plague. There are several tools out there for this, but my favorite (because they are open source) is Terracotta. It clusters the JVMs. Native clustering in Tomcat putters out, in my experience, after 3 n

Re: Tomcat6, apache2, mod_jk, non-APR, windows 2000, slow server startup with unpacked WAR

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Filip, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote: >> Mentioning WatchedResource is a red herring. > > reloadable attribute -> nothing to do with reloadable apps I disagree: "relodable ( attribute) Set to true if you want Catalina to monitor classes in /WEB-INF

[OT] Session replication vs stateless

Although the debate between session replication vs stateless can't be definitively solved and depends on the application, I'd like to hear about your experiences with both. How are you designing your current applications, and what implications has the choice that you might not have expected - woul

Re: Use JMX to manage applications

In addition to my questinos below, is mbeans-descriptors.xml a Tomcat-specific file or part of JMX in general? I can't tell - it seems to appear in links like the following: http://commons.apache.org/modeler/apidocs/org/apache/commons/modeler/package-summary.html But its DTD is under commons.apa

Re: Tomcat6, apache2, mod_jk, non-APR, windows 2000, slow server startup with unpacked WAR

Dan Beaulieu wrote: I'm not even concerned with the webapp being automatically reloadable. I can reload from the manager or just bounce tomcat. Mentioning WatchedResource is a red herring. reloadable attribute -> nothing to do with reloadable apps autoDeploy attribute -> everything to do with

RE: Apache authentication information (remoteuser) not visible in Tomcat

Omar I actually had this exact same problem early today although I'm sure my environment is slightly different from your perhaps I can offer some help. In my case I have LDAP authentication configured for my servlet. I believe this step should be the same regardless of the authentication scheme

Re: very slow upload over SSL

try adding a larger read buffer socket.appReadBufSize="34000" or even larger than that. or apply this patch http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=569489, that makes adjustments for the buffer sizes automatically Filip Hoa Doan wrote: Hi, I am trying to upload a file size of 2MB to

RE: Tomcat6, apache2, mod_jk, non-APR, windows 2000, slow server startup with unpacked WAR

I'm not even concerned with the webapp being automatically reloadable. I can reload from the manager or just bounce tomcat. Mentioning WatchedResource is a red herring. If I war a webapp with many class files in various packages in WEB-INF/classes with reloadable=false and unpackwars=false it will

Re: Tomcat6, apache2, mod_jk, non-APR, windows 2000, slow server startup with unpacked WAR

Dan Beaulieu wrote: Well I guess this gets into the nuances of classloaders that I am completely unfamiliar with, but I wonder why it would be any different if those few thousand classes are now packed in a jar and made available as a library to the webapp? nothing to do with classloading, all

applet-servlet communication, object serialization (tomcat 5.5)

hi, I encountered a problem with tomcat 5.5. Grazing the whole web i didn't find any solution (some guys are having the same problem but they also got no useful hint up to now). The problem is as follows: I try to build an applet-servlet communication using serialized objects. In my test sc

Re: Apache authentication information (remoteuser) not visible in Tomcat

Thanks for the response Christopher... although I had very early on, already tried what is suggested in the link you have referred to, i.e., setting tomcatAuthentication="false" in the appropriate server.xml line (see the config listing I produced earlier in the thread). Oh I hope its not some

Re: Apache authentication information (remoteuser) not visible in Tomcat

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Omar, Omar Nafees wrote: > request.getRemoteUser() returns null in my servlet. > request.getAttribute("REMOTE_USER") also returns null. I have even > checked the headers that are being sent to the AJP connector in Tomcat. This is a FAQ. The answer is

RE: Need a way to identify tomcat instances at run-time

| From: Brian Barnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Friday, 24 August, 2007 11:54 | | I have a struts-based application running on multiple tomcat instances, | load | balanced by a hardware load balancer, i.e., no Apache Web Server. I need a | way at run-time to know which tomcat instance it i

Re: Need a way to identify tomcat instances at run-time

There may be better ways, but one approach which occurs to me is to set unique jvmRoute values on the engines in the server.xml. Even though you aren't using mod_jk, this will result in the provided values being appended to the sessionid. Assuming that you are establishing sessions, and that

Re: Need a way to identify tomcat instances at run-time

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian, Brian Barnett wrote: > I have a struts-based application running on multiple tomcat > instances, load balanced by a hardware load balancer, i.e., no Apache > Web Server. I need a way at run-time to know which tomcat instance it > is. Is there a

Apache authentication information (remoteuser) not visible in Tomcat

Hello, request.getRemoteUser() returns null in my servlet. request.getAttribute("REMOTE_USER") also returns null. I have even checked the headers that are being sent to the AJP connector in Tomcat. Here's what I'm running: apache-2.0.59 in front of tomcat-5.5.23_1 via mod_jk-ap2-1.2.23 on

Need a way to identify tomcat instances at run-time

I have a struts-based application running on multiple tomcat instances, load balanced by a hardware load balancer, i.e., no Apache Web Server. I need a way at run-time to know which tomcat instance it is. Is there a way to access info in the server.xml or context.xml file at run-time? Can I specify

Tomcat looses POST parameters

Hi, We're hosting a fairly high traffic web application based on Tomcat. It's running on Debian-Etch, JDK 5.0U10 and Tomcat 5.5.20. We're using Apache as a front-end with the AJP connector. The problem I'm encountering is that for a percentage of the POST requests, Tomcat seems to loose all

Re: A Global Error Page (JSP or JSF)

It works most of the time but sometimes it doesn't for no discernible reason. :( One of life's great mysteries that I am looking in to. In Response To: Hi Chris, I guess you're question pointed to Sam, right? Anyways, that's also what I think. According to the specs a *noncaught* exception

Re: Clustering/Session Replication

There are some advantages and you can gain higher availability and therefore improved performance from clustering a single machine. In my little apps I use terracotta. Open source Java clustering tool that lets me acheive a pretty good distributed cache without manually rewriting code to work wit

Re: Open a session based on the session id

Thanks, I always tough that with ajax requests cookies were not sended. This is my first application that mixes ajax requests and session tracking, and becaus I was not able to read session info, I immediately assumed that (and i think i had read that somewhere). But the problem was with the info..

RE: Tomcat6, apache2, mod_jk, non-APR, windows 2000, slow server startup with unpacked WAR

Well I guess this gets into the nuances of classloaders that I am completely unfamiliar with, but I wonder why it would be any different if those few thousand classes are now packed in a jar and made available as a library to the webapp? We run our standalone appserver from a jar, and loading is i

RE: Need a way to identify tomcat instances at run-time

Chris, I don't know what you mean by your response. -Original Message- From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 6:43 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Need a way to identify tomcat instances at run-time -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash:

RE: workers.properties confusion

I think that really depends on the path you use inside your httpd.conf. That's the place where you specify which workers.properties to use. Cheers. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > Cool, it is starting to make a bit more sense. > > Does that mean that setting settings in > apache:/etc/httpd/c

Re: Tomcat6, apache2, mod_jk, non-APR, windows 2000, slow server startup with unpacked WAR

Dan Beaulieu wrote: Right, I understand the function of the reloadable attribute. What I don't understand is how on a modern computer, registering 2000 locations in memory/on disk to check for changes could take over a minute. Imagine just what it is doing, it isn't even checking for changes yet,

RE: Tomcat6, apache2, mod_jk, non-APR, windows 2000, slow server startup with unpacked WAR

Sorry for following up again, but it appears the reloadable attribute was NOT the problem. Setting it to false and deploying an unpackable war with classes in WEB-INF/classes and not the jar still takes a long time to start. -Original Message- From: Dan Beaulieu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Open a session based on the session id

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hernâni, > I'm developing a webapp that does lots of ajax requests, but I need to > keep track of the session. What I do is to read the JSESSIONID cookie > with javascript and send the value as a POST parameter when I make the > request, but then tomc

Re: workers.properties confusion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerhardus, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does that mean that setting settings in > apache:/etc/httpd/conf/workers.properties will override any > workers.properties set in tomcat servers? Tomcat never deals with workers.properties at all. Only mod_jk (wi

Re: Open a session based on the session id

I've never had to deal with the session id in my own code. Both Firefox and MSIE send it automatically when I make AJAX calls. 192.168.000.029.02446-192.168.000.020.08080: POST Accept: text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */* Accept-Language: en-us x-prototype-version: 1.5.0

RE: workers.properties confusion

Cool, it is starting to make a bit more sense. Does that mean that setting settings in apache:/etc/httpd/conf/workers.properties will override any workers.properties set in tomcat servers? > -Original Message- > From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 August 2007 1

RE: Tomcat6, apache2, mod_jk, non-APR, windows 2000, slow server startup with unpacked WAR

Right, I understand the function of the reloadable attribute. What I don't understand is how on a modern computer, registering 2000 locations in memory/on disk to check for changes could take over a minute. Imagine just what it is doing, it isn't even checking for changes yet, its just registering

Re: Tomcat response time extremely high (minutes)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rapthor, Rapthor wrote: > But after 1 day the same issue reappeared (response times of about 2 > minutes). When you observe the lng response time, try doing a thread-dump of the JVM to see what's going on. You can see which threads are waiting on

Re: Open a session based on the session id

Sex, 2007-08-24 às 10:06 -0400, Christopher Schultz escreveu: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hernâni, > > Don't hijack threads. Please post a new question. ??? > > - -chris > > Hernâni Henrique Ramos Cerqueira wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm developing a webapp that does l

Re: workers.properties confusion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerhardus, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However I am a bit confused between the > /etc/httpd/conf/workers.properties for apache and > /usr/share/tomcat/conf/workers.properties You only need one workers.properties file: it configures mod_jk for connect

Re: Open a session based on the session id

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hernâni, Don't hijack threads. Please post a new question. - -chris Hernâni Henrique Ramos Cerqueira wrote: > Hello all, > I'm developing a webapp that does lots of ajax requests, but I need to > keep track of the session. Wath i do is to read the J

Re: filter IP for a webapps through mod_jk

Hi, Try removing element from your tomcat server.xml Quoting Sebastien Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > after some days of tries and research I was able to run properly tomcat > (5.5.23), apache 2 and mod_jk for the same machine. > > So now, my webapps are reachable with both URLs:

Re: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument

try adding |-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true to your startup script Filip | Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron, Aaron wrote: Sun v245 running Solaris 10 I think this might have been covered before, but I'm not entirely sure. You'd have to

filter IP for a webapps through mod_jk

Hi, after some days of tries and research I was able to run properly tomcat (5.5.23), apache 2 and mod_jk for the same machine. So now, my webapps are reachable with both URLs: http://www.fake.com/webapps or http://www.fake.com:8080/webapps As I understood mod_jk, apache/mod_jk looks in loca

Re: Clustering/Session Replication

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew, Andrew Hole wrote: > What's benefits of using Clustering/Session Replication on same machine? If you have a really buggy application that crashes a lot, clustering and session replication can buy you some robustness that your engineers have n

Re: Mapped File Access Problems in Servlets

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel, Daniel L. Gross wrote: > I was > able to change the user to Administrator This is basically the same as running as root on a UNIX system: it works, but nobody can really recommend it since you're giving your app server full access to everythi

Re: Mapped File Access Problems in Servlets

Thanks for all your help, I found out the problem. It was the service privilege running under the local machine. The default tomcat icon at the bottom of the screen that allows you to configure and start/stop tomcat would not let me change the user it ran under. However, I was able to change

Tomcat response time extremely high (minutes)

Hello, my Tomcat 6.0.13/14 server is responding in a very long time. It does not matter if I try to start the main page of the server or one of my webapps. About 2 minutes for each website. This is not the case, if I test on my local machine with "http://localhost:8080/myapp"; (IE or Firefox on a

Re: Refresh JSP in Tomcat 5.5

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hezjing, hezjing wrote: > In Tomcat 5.5\conf\web.xml, I have defined modificationTestInterval=0 > and that the context's reloadable=true. Maybe try 'reloading="true"' instead? http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/jasper-howto.html - -chris

workers.properties confusion

Hi Another easy question to answer, hopefully... I just spend a lot of time going through this page: http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/reference/workers.html to decide which parameters we need/want to implement. However I am a bit confused between the /etc/httpd/conf/workers.properties

Re: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron, Aaron wrote: > Sun v245 running Solaris 10 I think this might have been covered before, but I'm not entirely sure. You'd have to check the circumstances. Search the archives for SocketException, socketSetOption, and IPv6. I think that you migh

Re: Mapped File Access Problems in Servlets

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel, Daniel L. Gross wrote: > How do I change the configuration in the tomcat service to allow it to > see other computers? You don't change the service configuration (unless you run Tomcat as some other user -- which isn't a bad idea). Instead, y

Re: Tomcat 5.5.23: adding datasource to /conf/context.xml without restarting server to find it?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cun, shunhecun wrote: > Because I have several applications which share the same dataource. I would configure them each separately in their own META-INF/context.xml file, even though all the values are the same. Is this feasible in your environment?

Re: tomcat 5.5 & debian sid

sorry guys, wrong newsgroup... -- what's puzzlin' you, is the nature of my game gpgp-fp: 79A84FA526807026795E4209D3B3FE028B3170B2 gpgp-key available @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de:11371 - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.a

tomcat 5.5 & debian sid

Der Default-Port fuer Tomcat ist definitiv 8080: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/deployer-howto.html Wenn ich Tante Google mal glauben darf, ist der Default Port fuer Squid 3128. Lediglich in einigen Tutorials wird 8080 empfohlen, wenn man Squid als HTTP-Proxy einsetzt - ist aber kein De

Re: Need a way to identify tomcat instances at run-time

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian, Don't hijack threads. Please post a new question to the list. - -chris Brian Barnett wrote: > I have a struts-based application running on multiple tomcat instances, load > balanced by a hardware load balancer, i.e., no Apache Web Server. I

Re: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron, Don't hijack threads. Please post a new question to the list. - -chris Aaron wrote: > I am running Tomcat 5.0.28 and Apache 2.2 using mod_jk. I am constantly > seeing the following error show up in the catalina.log: > > WARNING: Exception e

Re: Mapped File Access Problems in Servlets

I just tried changing the login configuration to log onto the administrator account, and I still get access denied. Any thoughts??? Thanks, Dan Gross, ATLC Mark Thomas wrote: Daniel L. Gross wrote: I have a servlet that does a direct read from a mapped drive in Windows. It works fine i

Re: Mapped File Access Problems in Servlets

I am not running in a domain, my servers are running in a workgroup only, and the machine tomcat 5.5 is running on is logged into an administrator account. It appears that it sees the mapped drives because if I try to access a file that is not available, I get the proper JAVA message. When I

Re: recovery_options bitmask values for mod_jk

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hi > Hopefully a simple answer, the documentation says > recovery_options is a bitmask but what I am unsure of is do I set the > value in binary or do I use integer values? > > 1: don't recover if Tomcat failed after getting the request > 2: don't recover if Tomcat f

Re: how to add restriction to a folder?

Easy: 1. Store your download files in a folder inside of WEB-INF which is protected from /direct/ access by the client. 2. Grab a copy of the default servlet source and refactor it to your package modding as necessary to your needs. 3. Register the servlet in your web.xml mapping to some reques

recovery_options bitmask values for mod_jk

Hi Hopefully a simple answer, the documentation says recovery_options is a bitmask but what I am unsure of is do I set the value in binary or do I use integer values? 1: don't recover if Tomcat failed after getting the request 2: don't recover if Tomcat failed after sending the headers to client

Open a session based on the session id

Hello all, I'm developing a webapp that does lots of ajax requests, but I need to keep track of the session. Wath i do is to read the JSESSIONID cookie with javascript and send the value as a POST parameter when I make the request, but then tomcat doesn't open the session automaticaly. My question

how to add restriction to a folder?

i want to have a folder that will contain files that can be downloaded/saved only by going through a servlet.. how can i do this? are there any tutorials or links? thanks.. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-to-add-restriction-to-a-folder--tf4323046.html#a12310612 Sent fr

Re: Tomcat & commons.net FTPClient

DOH! Yes, it was a classloading problem. I had assumed the IDE had packaged commons net in the web app but it hadn't. MARollins wrote: > > Hi, > I've written an application to download and process a set of files using > commons.net FTPClient. This runs fine from in a standalone application. >

Re: Tomcat 5.5.23: adding datasource to /conf/context.xml without restarting server to find it?

Then I don't think you can avoid a restart of tomcat. The only other method of defining a jdbc pool shared across webapps involves defining it in the ... of conf/server.xml and that also requires a restart. Pick your poison -- one db pool per webapp restarting each webapp or one db pool acro

Clustering/Session Replication

Hello! What's benefits of using Clustering/Session Replication on same machine? Thanks a lot

[OT] RE: Is Tomcat being hacked by curl ?

> From: David Rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can use telnet to run a crude DoS attack, too. Or any other tool > which can open a TCP connection. curl would not be my first choice to > perform a DoS attack if I were so inclined. No, it's a bit resource-intensive. A good few years ago, when

Tomcat & commons.net FTPClient

Hi, I've written an application to download and process a set of files using commons.net FTPClient. This runs fine from in a standalone application. However, when I incorporate it into a web app (Tomcal/Struts/Spring) it fails on the constructor of FTPClient, ie. FTPClient ftp=new FTPClient();

Re: Tomcat 5.5.23: adding datasource to /conf/context.xml without restarting server to find it?

Because I have several applications which share the same dataource. David Smith-2 wrote: > > Ok... this begs the question: Why did you add the datasource to > $TOMCAT_BASE/conf/context.xml? The datasource should be in your > individual webapp's context.xml file where all you have to do is re

Re: A Global Error Page (JSP or JSF)

Hi Chris, I guess you're question pointed to Sam, right? Anyways, that's also what I think. According to the specs a *noncaught* exception should trigger the errorpage At least here it's working as expected ;) Cheers Gregor -- what's puzzlin' you, is the nature of my game gpgp-fp: 79A84FA526