Hello
I 'm quite new to tomcat and just spent one whole day because tomcat
8.5.23 was freezing at startup for about 15 minutes !!! on a virtual
private server on debian (while it used to work perfectly last week).
1) it was really difficult to know where was the problem because after
15 minutes the application worked perfectly, and there was no particular
error in the log
2) it was difficult to change the log level, the page
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/setup.html does not mention how
to change the logging level. The page
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/logging.html seems too complex
and written for advanced users
3) after setting log FINE I found that Creation of SecureRandom instance
for session ID generation using [SHA1PRNG] took [580,051] milliseconds.
Documentation for this problem is far far away in
https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo/FasterStartUp, and this page does
not tell where to put the Java Option for tomcat
So my suggestions are:
- create a beginer's documentation separate from full feature
documentation, which is too difficult to read for beginners
- explain some important settings, but not everything, only important
things like port 8080 in conf/server.xml, environment variables etc.
- explicitely advise people to change
CATALINA_OPTS=-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom to avoid starting
hard problems on linux
- explain how to build a very simple jsp application, what is the
meaning of WEB-INF , META-INF and what to put inside
- explain how deployement works in simple configuration where there is
one application only.
- add a download sample app that works everywhere with one JSP and one
Servlet for instance.
thanks.
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Riccardo Cohen
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