On 7/10/2013 6:08 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
From: john Matlock [mailto:johndmatl...@gmail.com] Subject: Moving
Tomcat to work externally.
Following instructions found in various places I added the
following to the server.xml file and restarted Tomcat:
If you followed something that said to put a <Context> element in
server.xml, you need to stop going to those places and read the real
Tomcat doc.
Sadly, the three documents I read concerning Railo and Tomcat all have
this same exact syntax.
The rest of the instructions concerning integrating Tomcat and Railo are
pretty much on par with this.
<users@tomcat.apache.org>
The above has no business being anywhere in a config file.
<Host name="books-on-line.com" appBase="webapps"> <Context path'""
docBase="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\" />
<Alias>www.books-on-line.org</Alias>
<Alias>www.books-on-line.net</Alias> </Host>
Take out all of the above; none of it is needed or desirable.
Remove the ROOT directory from Tomcat's webapps directory, replacing
it with your webapp renamed to ROOT.war (or, if it's already an
expanded .war file, put it in the ROOT directory under webapps).
Chrome, Firefox and even tried IE from another machine -- all say
they can't connect.
What URL did you try to use? Where is the "other machine" located
relative to the one Tomcat is running on? What port is specified in
server.xml? Is there a firewall blocking that port? Be specific
when reporting problems.
Tomcat version: Whatever comes with Railo 4
It comes with some (undefined) version of Tomcat 7.
If you don't know what it is, remove it, and install a real one from
tomcat.apache.org; otherwise, you're just shooting in the dark.
Is there something else I'm supposed to do?
Register the DNS name for your server with your DNS providers.
Did I do something stupid?
Not terribly, other than not reading the real Tomcat doc before
making changes.
- Chuck
In the original author's defense, the railo documentation is . . .
unpleasant.
Here's what I did to get it running quickly:
1. Download a copy of Tomcat from tomcat.apache.org
Grab the zip file and unpack it somewhere. Right now you don't need to
run it as a service, nor do you need to even use the manager application.
2. Download the WAR file for railo
I believe the current production version is 4.0.4. The WAR file will be
named railo-4.0.4.001.war
3. Copy it as railo.war to the webapps directory
You'll find that directory in apache-tomcat-7.0.42\webapps, wherever
you've unpacked the zip file.
4. Double-click on startup.bat
You'll find that in apache-tomcat-7.0.42\bin, wherever you've unpacked
the zip file.
5. Browse to localhost:8080/railo and confirm that it works.
6. Remote machine access
Now, either update DNS to point to your machine as books-on-line.com, or
go and edit a remote machine's host file to have books-on-line.com with
your IP address.
Make sure your machine's firewall allows port 8080.
Now browse to books-on-line.com:8080/railo and make sure you can connect.
Now to make the Railo environment the default application:
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1. Stop Tomcat
Double-click on shutdown.bat found in apache-tomcat-7.0.42\bin, wherever
you've unpacked the Tomcat zip file.
2. Back up Tomcat's original ROOT application
It's found in apache-tomcat-7.0.42\webapps, wherever you've unpacked the
Tomcat zip file.
3. Rename railo.war to ROOT.war
Please note that case is important, even on Windows
4. Delete the railo directory that was created
It's found in apache-tomcat-7.0.42\webapps, wherever you've unpacked the
Tomcat zip file.
5. Start up Tomcat
6. Browse to localhost:8080/
You should see the railo application
7. From a remote machine, browse to books-on-line.com:8080
You should see the railo application
Added Feature 1 - Run on Port 80
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1. Stop Tomcat
Double-click on shutdown.bat found in apache-tomcat-7.0.42\bin, wherever
you've unpacked the Tomcat zip file.
2. Edit server.xml - changing port 8080 to port 80
The file is found in apache-tomcat-7.0.42\conf, wherever you've unpacked
the Tomcat zip file
You're looking for the following entry to change:
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
connectionTimeout="20000"
redirectPort="8443" />
3. Make sure port 80 is not being used
This is usually means that IIS or Apache HTTPD is running. Stop them.
You can open up a cmd.exe and type the following:
netstat -ano
This will list all of the ports, and the process ID accessing the ports.
If there's 0.0.0.0:80 or [::]:80, find the process and stop it.
4. Start up Tomcat
5. Browse to localhost/
You should see the railo application
6. From a remote machine, browse to books-on-line.com
You should see the railo application
Added Feature 2 - Run as a service
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Repeat the above exercise, with the following exceptions.
1. Install the service
Install the service in a path with no spaces. Tomcat is fine with
spaces, some less well-behaved applications may not be.
I usually put the service in C:\ASF\apache-tomcat-x.y.z to mimic the zip
style of naming
Give the Tomcat service a name rather than taking the default name.
I usually append the version numbers to it - for example Tomcat742.
2. Proceed stepwise as above.
You'll use the Tomcat Monitor application to start and stop Tomcat
instead of the .bat files
Added Feature 3 - Production Environment
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1. Remove examples and docs apps from default Tomcat install
2. Manager application
a. easiest is to remove
b. can configure it to only accept connections from localhost
c. discussion of option b is left for another message
I think that's about it
. . . . just my two cents (and dinner entertainment)
/mde/
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