Re: Tomcat Domain for redirects

2009-02-06 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2009/2/6 Christian Decker : > > Hi all, > > I'm not that good at configuring Tomcat so I thought I'd ask here. My > problem is that I have a server that is running Tomcat 5.5 and an > Apache server that runs on port 80 and uses mod_jk to redirect all > incoming requests to the tomcat server. > > So

Re: Fun with the JVM crashing.

2009-02-06 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
> Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >>> From: Bill Davidson [mailto:bill...@gmail.com] >>> Subject: Fun with the JVM crashing. >> >>> I'm thinking that the JVM shouldn't be getting SIGSEGV's. >> >> You're right about that. However, it could also be an OS or hardware >> problem. You might want to run some

Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Pawson
Rob, Christopher, Andre. Thanks for the input. As I said to Rob, security is not an issue at the present time. There is no value in the content returned by the 'server' / end point; I'm not trying to make it secure. Just respond less than I otherwise might. Thanks for the 'lecture' Andre. I now ap

Re: Can Tomcat accomplish this?

2009-02-06 Thread Rusty Wright
Apache Tuscany, perhaps. Christopher Long wrote: Hello: I was just wondering if Tomcat is able to do something similar to what I've described below. If not, does anyone have any recommendations on a Web Server that can? I'm attempting to find a web server that can basically act as a hub. Sa

Re: Running Derby on Tomcat

2009-02-06 Thread michel
Chuck, I will do that and thanks! - Original Message - From: "Caldarale, Charles R" To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 9:30 PM Subject: RE: Running Derby on Tomcat From: michel [mailto:compu...@videotron.ca] Subject: Re: Running Derby on Tomcat I am using t

RE: Running Derby on Tomcat

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: michel [mailto:compu...@videotron.ca] > Subject: Re: Running Derby on Tomcat > > I am using the default tomcat for my hosting If by "default Tomcat" you mean a 3rd-party repackaged one, then I strongly advise getting rid of it and installing a real one from tomcat.apache.org. The repack

Re: Running Derby on Tomcat

2009-02-06 Thread michel
Chuck, Thanks! I am using the default tomcat for my hosting and it has the classpath in the default startup. I am wondering if that isn't a reason for all the weird problems. Thanks again! - Original Message - From: "Caldarale, Charles R" To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Friday, F

RE: Running Derby on Tomcat

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: michel [mailto:compu...@videotron.ca] > Subject: Running Derby on Tomcat > > export > CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$DERBY_INSTALL/lib/derby.jar:$DERBY_INSTA > LL/lib/derbyclient.jar:$DERBY_INSTALL/lib/derbytools.jar:. Don't ever, ever, ever set CLASSTPATH for use with Tomcat. Any jars needed

RE: Management app start

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Hehl, Thomas [mailto:thomas.h...@acs-inc.com] > Subject: RE: Management app start > > Tomcat=6.0 > Java=1.6 > Redhat Linux 3.something. > They brought up the management app and stopped the > webapp, but cannot seem to get it started again. > I had them e-mail the log, but no help. Do you

Running Derby on Tomcat

2009-02-06 Thread michel
Hi, I've been trying to get Derby running on Tomcat with no luck. When I try to get a java server page to connect it keeps telling me that it can't find the derby client driver. I start Tomcat with this: #!/bin/sh JAVA_HOME=/lib/sun-jdk-1.5.0 JAVA_OPTS="-server" CATALINA_HOME=/s

RE: [OT] [Tomcat] [daemon] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError unable to createnew native thread

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Caldarale, Charles R > Subject: RE: [OT] [Tomcat] [daemon] > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError unable to createnew native thread > > No, what's been reported on various mailing lists. Looks like the true RAM on the iPhone is indeed just 128 MB, embedded in the same chip carrier as the ARM proces

Re: mod_jk

2009-02-06 Thread Mohit Anchlia
Sorry I am little confused about couple of things: 1. Based on what I read it looks like workers.properties is not loaded dynamically. And JkMountFileReload doesn't work for worker.properties but it works for uriworkermap.properties. 2. Wouldn't setting prepost timeout ensure that a check is made

About logging

2009-02-06 Thread Mohit Anchlia
I have a problem that I haven't resolved yet around logging. I have log4j within my application, what I see is that every log line is written to my log file specified in log4j (as expected) but there is also one entry in catalina.out. I had asked this question in the thread http://marc.info/?l=tomc

Re: WEB-INF/classes vs WEB-INF/lib/classes.jar file

2009-02-06 Thread André Warnier
Mikolaj Rydzewski wrote: André Warnier wrote: chown root/root /bin/ps chmod 700 /bin/ps User can build his own ps binary. Security by obscurity is not a good way to go. I was just kidding. ;-) I'd still like to make it work though. It looks like such a nice way to solve the problem, apart f

Re: WEB-INF/classes vs WEB-INF/lib/classes.jar file

2009-02-06 Thread Mikolaj Rydzewski
André Warnier wrote: chown root/root /bin/ps chmod 700 /bin/ps User can build his own ps binary. Security by obscurity is not a good way to go. -- Mikolaj Rydzewski - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.

Re: sessions lost after redeploy

2009-02-06 Thread J Robert Ray
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: >> But if I copy a new .war into webapps, or touch the existing .war, so >> that my app redeploys, my sessions are deleted. > > Are you sure that simply 'touch'ing the existing WAR causes your > sessions to die? I can't account for that,

Re: Can Tomcat accomplish this?

2009-02-06 Thread János Löbb
On Feb 6, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Christopher Long [mailto:kord...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: Can Tomcat accomplish this? Unfortunately we're not looking for an ESB. That's too bad, because that's certainly what your requirement statement sounds like. We're look

RE: Classloaders

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Jorge Medina [mailto:jmed...@e-dialog.com] > Subject: Classloaders > > How does this relate to the classloaders -if at all- ? It doesn't. > Would Tomcat create a classloader per each ? > ? or ? Nope. > If I define two s, are they isolated by different > classloaders? Nope. In 6.0, T

Classloaders

2009-02-06 Thread Jorge Medina
In server.xml , a may contain multiple elements. Each can define multiple but a single . Each can define multiple s. How does this relate to the classloaders -if at all- ? I couldn't find any reference about it on: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html Would T

Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Robert Koberg
On Feb 6, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave, Dave Pawson wrote: Only one aspect of security Rob. As needed I'll look at others later. Can you suggest alternatives to achieve what I want, rather than something else? Instead of

Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave, Dave Pawson wrote: > Only one aspect of security Rob. > As needed I'll look at others later. > Can you suggest alternatives to achieve what I want, rather than something > else? Instead of using "Accept" header with a magic content-type, how a

RE: Can Tomcat accomplish this?

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christopher Long [mailto:kord...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: Can Tomcat accomplish this? > > Unfortunately we're not looking for an ESB. That's too bad, because that's certainly what your requirement statement sounds like. > We're looking specifically for a Web Server. There's no web serv

Re: Can Tomcat accomplish this?

2009-02-06 Thread Ken Bowen
I may be missing something here, but it strikes me that this requirement has nothing to do with a web server in particular, and everything to do with the application code which you write to accomplish what you describe. On Feb 6, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Christopher Long wrote: Unfortunately we're

Re: Fun with the JVM crashing.

2009-02-06 Thread Alan Chaney
Hi Bill My development workstation is a 64 bit Ubuntu 8.04. I've had numerous problems with SIGSEGV crashes when I run my applications under Eclipse 3.3, but the same machine also runs the same applications from the same version(s) of tomcat (6.0.14,6.0.16 and 6.0.18) I found that what seemed

Re: Can Tomcat accomplish this?

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Long
Unfortunately we're not looking for an ESB. We're looking specifically for a Web Server. Does anyone know if mod_jk will handle this type of thing? "I'm attempting to find a web server that can basically act as a hub. Say if someone attempts to send a SOAP request to http://1.1.1.1/message1 it w

RE: Fun with the JVM crashing.

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Caldarale, Charles R > Subject: RE: Fun with the JVM crashing. > > > Maybe I should try reverting to 6u7? > > That would be my next step. You could install a 32-bit JVM; that would give you the option of running either -server or -client. If the 32-bit -server mode crashes, you can try

RE: Can Tomcat accomplish this?

2009-02-06 Thread Jorge Medina
Maybe an ESB ? (like "Mule") -Original Message- From: Christopher Long [mailto:kord...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 2:19 PM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Can Tomcat accomplish this? Hello: I was just wondering if Tomcat is able to do something similar to what I've d

RE: Fun with the JVM crashing.

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Bill Davidson [mailto:bill...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: Fun with the JVM crashing. > > Maybe I should try reverting to 6u7? That would be my next step. > I was thinking it might make the CompileTask issue go away. Well it does, because the JVM won't use the compilers in interpreter mode.

Re: Fun with the JVM crashing.

2009-02-06 Thread Bill Davidson
Bill Davidson wrote: Caldarale, Charles R wrote: Major changes went in between 6u7 and 6u10. Maybe I should try reverting to 6u7? Dammit. Looking back through my old hs_err*.log files, it also happened with 6u7. - To unsub

Re: Fun with the JVM crashing.

2009-02-06 Thread Bill Davidson
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: Major changes went in between 6u7 and 6u10. Maybe I should try reverting to 6u7? I'm wondering if -Xint might help. Only if you want performance to go into the toilet - that's > interpreter mode, also know as really, really, abominably slow. I was thinking it m

RE: Fun with the JVM crashing.

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Bill Davidson [mailto:bill...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: Fun with the JVM crashing. > > However, it has happened on three different boxes, > always with the same CompileTask mentioned. That pretty much eliminates hardware. > BTW, it also happened with 6u10. Major changes went in between 6

Re: Fun with the JVM crashing.

2009-02-06 Thread Bill Davidson
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: Only if that shows up repeatedly. It does. I'm thinking that the JVM shouldn't be getting SIGSEGV's. You're right about that. However, it could also be an OS or > hardware problem. You might want to run some serious memory > tests on the box, just to eliminate

Re: Should I use the -server switch?

2009-02-06 Thread Bill Davidson
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: Most of the 64-bit Sun JVMs come only in -server mode, no -client version. Run "java -version" (without the quotes) to see what the default mode is. Checking that... $ ./java -version java version "1.6.0_11" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_11-b03) Jav

Re: Deadlock situation detected/avoided with jk_log_lock

2009-02-06 Thread fredk2
Thanks Rainer, Do I understand you correctly that when Mr. Orton said to never use pthread nor posixsem mutex (http://marc.info/?l=apr-dev&m=108720968023158&w=2) that is now obsolete news and that Solaris perfected pthread mutex support since. You mention that mod_jk uses pthread is that the sam

Can Tomcat accomplish this?

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Long
Hello: I was just wondering if Tomcat is able to do something similar to what I've described below. If not, does anyone have any recommendations on a Web Server that can? I'm attempting to find a web server that can basically act as a hub. Say if someone attempts to send a SOAP request to http:

Re: mod_jk

2009-02-06 Thread fredk2
Hi Rainer, your comment about the watchdog sounds interesting. When you load balance it would seem useful to get feedback from Tomcat itself about its load so that the module can adjust dynamically its load (lbfactor) based on the Tomcat's performance rather than a session/socket count. One can

Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread André Warnier
Dave Pawson wrote: 2009/2/6 Caldarale, Charles R : From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.paw...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type? Unless the client specifies that one single mime type (and no other), I want to reject it Unless you

RE: Management app start

2009-02-06 Thread Hehl, Thomas
Please forgive my foolishness as it is Friday afternoon and my brain must already be on weekend.:) Tomcat=6.0 Java=1.6 Redhat Linux 3.something. -Original Message- From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:chuck.caldar...@unisys.com] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 1:49 PM To: Tomcat Users List

RE: Management app start

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Hehl, Thomas [mailto:thomas.h...@acs-inc.com] > Subject: Management app start > > This is a remote client, so I'm stuck as to what to look at next. How about looking at the Tomcat version, JRE/JDK in use, OS, etc. - and then telling us what they are. Or consult a psychic. - Chuck THI

RE: [OT] [Tomcat] [daemon] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError unable to createnew native thread

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Subject: Re: [OT] [Tomcat] [daemon] > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError unable to createnew native thread > > Are you talking about "two 512 Mbit SRAM dice"? No, what's been reported on various mailing lists. > Do you have a reference I

Re: sessions lost after redeploy

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert, J Robert Ray wrote: > Hello, I have an app running in tomcat 6.0.18, using the default > session manager. > > If I stop and start tomcat, or if I use the "reload" button in the > manager, my sessions are preserved. Good. That suggests your s

Re: Fun with the JVM crashing.

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Bill Davidson [mailto:bill...@gmail.com] >> Subject: Fun with the JVM crashing. > >> I'm thinking that the JVM shouldn't be getting SIGSEGV's. > > You're right about that. However, it could also be an OS o

Re: mod_jk

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rainer, Rainer Jung wrote: > Worth filing an enhancement request, since Mladen put the Watchdog > thread into 1.2.27, we can easily add more logic of that type. Maybe ajping? - -chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Com

Management app start

2009-02-06 Thread Hehl, Thomas
I have a client using our software and have set up for them a user for the management app. They brought up the management app and stopped the webapp, but cannot seem to get it started again. I had them e-mail the log, but no help. This is a remote client, so I'm stuck as to what to look at next.

Re: [OT] [Tomcat] [daemon] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError unable to createnew native thread

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] >> Subject: Re: [OT] [Tomcat] [daemon] >> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError unable to createnew native thread >> >> Assuming Chuck has an iPhone, which has

Re: Tomcat Domain for redirects

2009-02-06 Thread André Warnier
Christian Decker wrote: [...] As this happens in many different places I assume that the tomcat server somehow believes that he is server1 instead of server1.example.com. I'm also going to start at the beginning, but in a different way. So why don't you force Tomcat to believe he /is/ server1

Re: [OT] [Tomcat] [daemon] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError unable to create new native thread

2009-02-06 Thread André Warnier
Christopher Schultz wrote: [...] Assuming Chuck has an iPhone, which has 128MB of RAM, I'm not sure I'd want to run a JVM on that server in the first place. Something tells me we've been over this before so I won't beat a dead horse. Chuck assured us, on this forum, that his phone had waaay mo

Re: Upgrade .. a Tomcat

2009-02-06 Thread André Warnier
Gregor Schneider wrote: Besides, it's Debian, and, if I'm not mistaken, it's a packaged installation. I know that, but you're the first one to mention it, and it has been 3 days since the post. So my phrasing wasn't so bad. ;-)

Re: And how about this mod_jk.log ?

2009-02-06 Thread André Warnier
Chris, I'd just like to point out that there are two existing tools that may have helped you our a lot: wget (often installed be default on many Linuxes these days) and httping (which is not, but freely available and has a simple "make" compile strategy). I thought about those, but did not use

Re: mod_jk

2009-02-06 Thread Rainer Jung
On 06.02.2009 18:23, André Warnier wrote: gerhardus.geldenh...@gta-travel.com wrote: 1) As far as I know, no, mod_jk does not read workers.properties dynamically. 2) Yes and no, it will not send a request unless communication has been established with the worker, it may happen that the worker

Re: mod_jk

2009-02-06 Thread André Warnier
gerhardus.geldenh...@gta-travel.com wrote: 1) As far as I know, no, mod_jk does not read workers.properties dynamically. 2) Yes and no, it will not send a request unless communication has been established with the worker, it may happen that the worker fails, or someone shut it down. Depending o

Re: WEB-INF/classes vs WEB-INF/lib/classes.jar file

2009-02-06 Thread André Warnier
Mikolaj Rydzewski wrote: André Warnier wrote: start) su - tomcatuser -c "/var/lib/jvm/java $CONFIDENTIAL_SETTINGS -jar " All of your 'confidential settings' will be visible to all users with one command: ps aux Ooops. chown root/root /bin/ps chmod 700 /bin/ps Damn! it sounded so

Re: Deadlock situation detected/avoided with jk_log_lock

2009-02-06 Thread Rainer Jung
On 06.02.2009 18:13, fredk2 wrote: I was doing some stress test (with apache ab, 100 users, 100K requests) to compare an Apache prefork and worker mpm. The test url is a simple hello servlet on Tomcat 6.0.x via mod_jk. On my Sparc Solaris 10 server with only the Apache set to worker mpm I see fo

Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread André Warnier
Dave Pawson wrote: Thanks Andre. That paints a good picture! Only generality I'd like to add. The "general purpose" of my-app web.xml and 'all apps' web.xml. Is it TC 'configuration' (Chaz isn't going to like that, but I do like an overview, even if it's only 80%). I'm saying config, since it pr

Deadlock situation detected/avoided with jk_log_lock

2009-02-06 Thread fredk2
Hi, I was doing some stress test (with apache ab, 100 users, 100K requests) to compare an Apache prefork and worker mpm. The test url is a simple hello servlet on Tomcat 6.0.x via mod_jk. On my Sparc Solaris 10 server with only the Apache set to worker mpm I see following error messages in my

Re: mod_jk

2009-02-06 Thread Rainer Jung
On 06.02.2009 00:34, Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mohit, Mohit Anchlia wrote: 1. Does apache read worker.properties dynamically? So if I change worker.property would it be dynamically read by mod_jk. mod_jk will not reload the workers.properties fi

Re: Limit connections to tomcat via mod_jk

2009-02-06 Thread Rainer Jung
On 04.02.2009 14:13, ben short wrote: Hi, We have Apache Httpd 2.4.4 in front of Tomcat 6.0.13 and are using mod_jk to talk between them. Apache Httpd is using prefork configured to allow 256 processes. Tomcat also has 256 threads available. When a user requests a page one call to the Tomcat is

RE: Problem with mod_jk and Tomcat Native Connectors on Solaris

2009-02-06 Thread Jorge Medina
Hallo Rainer! Danke für dein Hilfe. I will follow your recommendation on upgrading, and I will need to learn how to configure a more verbose log and interpret them. I found out the following: - My client code (a java Axis2 client) had a timeout (I found it was 30 sec, I was un

Re: And how about this mod_jk.log ?

2009-02-06 Thread Rainer Jung
On 06.02.2009 14:46, Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, André Warnier wrote: Because the first part of this test had to be done by a non-specialist customer on a workstation to which I did not have access, I ended up writing a simple Perl script bas

RE: Tomcat Domain for redirects

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christian Decker [mailto:decker.christ...@gmail.com] > Subject: Tomcat Domain for redirects > > I have a server that is running Tomcat 5.5 and an > Apache server that runs on port 80 and uses mod_jk > to redirect all incoming requests to the tomcat server. So let's start at the beginning.

Re: Error in building mod_jk for Apache 2.2.x and Tomcat 4.x

2009-02-06 Thread Rainer Jung
On 03.02.2009 13:29, Shweta Parakh -X (shparakh - Infosys at Cisco) wrote: I am trying to build mod_jk for Apache 2.2.11 and Tomcat 4.1.39 on Solaris platform 1. Downloaded mod_jk (version 1.2.27) source from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-connectors.cgi and is kept in /opt/mod_jk-1.2.27

Re: Problem with mod_jk and Tomcat Native Connectors on Solaris

2009-02-06 Thread Rainer Jung
On 02.02.2009 20:01, Jorge Medina wrote: I am having problems with the mod_jk module 1.2.26 and Tomcat Native connectors running in Solaris 10. The problem occurs in both processors x86 (64-bit) and sparc (64-bit). (The problem does not occur on RedHat EL5 64-bit). On the mod_jk workers

RE: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.paw...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the > place to constrain the mime type? > 2.4 final or > 2.5 maint release. > > which is TC 6 compliant to please? RTFM: http://tomcat.apache.org/ It's on the *first* page... - Chuck T

Re: [Tomcat] [daemon] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError unable to create new native thread

2009-02-06 Thread Rainer Jung
On 03.02.2009 16:31, Steve Cohen wrote: We have an application that runs under Tomcat under RHEL 5.0 and is launched by a jsvc daemon. It chugs along seemingly fine on several servers, yet yesterday crashed on one of them with the above exception seemingly without experiencing any kind of abnorm

Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Pawson
2009/2/6 Caldarale, Charles R : >> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.paw...@gmail.com] >> Subject: Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the >> place to constrain the mime type? >> >> ? Unclear why Charles? > > 1) Filter specifications are documented. > > 2) Filters are not subject to change w

Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Pawson
2009/2/6 Robert Koberg : >>> Which is a good reason not to use a valve. Unless you need access to >>> Tomcat internals, use a filter. >> >> ? Unclear why Charles? >> >> To make it 'filter' all server traffic? >> AFAIK I don't need access to any internals. > > You seem to be making this much more

Tomcat Domain for redirects

2009-02-06 Thread Christian Decker
Hi all, I'm not that good at configuring Tomcat so I thought I'd ask here. My problem is that I have a server that is running Tomcat 5.5 and an Apache server that runs on port 80 and uses mod_jk to redirect all incoming requests to the tomcat server. So far, so good. The problem is that I want t

RE: Subcontext, filter problem.

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Subject: Re: Subcontext, filter problem. > > I would instead use a servlet, and map it to the appropriate > URI prefix. Yes, that's what I told him to do - extend the DefaultServlet so it can target the external resources and sti

RE: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.paw...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the > place to constrain the mime type? > > ? Unclear why Charles? 1) Filter specifications are documened. 2) Filters are not subject to change with every Tomcat release. > To make it 'fil

Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Robert Koberg
On Feb 6, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Dave Pawson wrote: 2009/2/6 Caldarale, Charles R : From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.paw...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type? I'm coming down in favour of a valve, rather than a filter, to make it

RE: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.paw...@gmail.com] > >> I'm coming down in favour of a valve, rather than a filter, > >> to make it container specific, > > > > Which is a good reason not to use a valve. Unless you need > access to Tomcat internals, use a filter. > > ? Unclear why Charles? > > To m

Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Pawson
2009/2/6 Caldarale, Charles R : >> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.paw...@gmail.com] >> Subject: Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the >> place to constrain the mime type? >> >> I'm coming down in favour of a valve, rather than a filter, >> to make it container specific, > > Which is a g

Re: How to dispatch HTTP requests from a servlet to an external server?

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Albrecht, albrecht andrzejewski wrote: > The client request first hit my Servlet, then should be dispatched to a > physically distant machine to be analyzed, then my Servlet should read > the response of this second server, and finally send response t

Re: Subcontext, filter problem.

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Yavuz Kavus [mailto:yavuzka...@gmail.com] >> Subject: Re: Subcontext, filter problem. >> >> i am currently using the third one. but it is a bit slow and i dont >> want to use a filter for such a task. > > T

RE: [OT] [Tomcat] [daemon] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError unable to createnew native thread

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Subject: Re: [OT] [Tomcat] [daemon] > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError unable to createnew native thread > > Assuming Chuck has an iPhone, which has 128MB of RAM I do, but it's a 3G, with 16 GB of storage memory. It appears that the 12

Re: Deleting web application specific log files

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Asish, Please do not post your question more than once unless several days have gone by without a response. Ashish Sarna wrote: > I am using tomcat6 to deploy my web applications. For logging the messages > which come through > > httpServletRequest

Re: [OT] [Tomcat] [daemon] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError unable to create new native thread

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, André Warnier wrote: > I have been put right about that by someone else already. Yeah, I'm about 2 days behind on all the drivel on the list. ;) > Not everyone agrees with that solution by the way, because the JConsole > may interfere with th

RE: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.paw...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the > place to constrain the mime type? > > I'm coming down in favour of a valve, rather than a filter, > to make it container specific, Which is a good reason not to use a valve. Unless yo

Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Pawson
2009/2/6 Caldarale, Charles R : >> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.paw...@gmail.com] >> Subject: Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the >> place to constrain the mime type? >> >> Unless the client specifies that one single mime >> type (and no other), I want to reject it > > Unless you ha

RE: mod_jk

2009-02-06 Thread Hubert de Heer
Well... as far as I know there is an option to check if a backend is available (up to a certain level). Look in the documentation for ping_mode (mod_jk 1.2.27) http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/generic_howto/timeouts.html Hubert -Original Message- From: gerhardus.geldenh...@gta-t

Re: Upgrade .. a Tomcat

2009-02-06 Thread Gregor Schneider
Besides, it's Debian, and, if I'm not mistaken, it's a packaged installation. Rgds Gregor -- just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you... gpgp-fp: 79A84FA526807026795E4209D3B3FE028B3170B2 gpgp-key available @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de:11371 -

RE: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.paw...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the > place to constrain the mime type? > Is it TC 'configuration' I'm saying config, since > it provides response mime types, params etc. Strictly speaking, it's not Tomcat configuration,

RE: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.paw...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the > place to constrain the mime type? > > Unless the client specifies that one single mime > type (and no other), I want to reject it Unless you have an extremely specialized client in min

Re: And how about this mod_jk.log ?

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, André Warnier wrote: > Because the first part of this test had to be done by a non-specialist > customer on a workstation to which I did not have access, I ended up > writing a simple Perl script based on the integral LWP module, to better > tr

RE: Upgrade .. a Tomcat

2009-02-06 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: David Smith [mailto:d...@cornell.edu] > Subject: Re: Upgrade .. a Tomcat > I suppose you could just trade out the jars that changed In this case, he can't: the listener of interest is *not* in the jars - it's only in the Tomcat source download, and has to be compiled by whomever wants to

Re: servlet use. TC6, FC10

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Pawson
2009/2/6 Gregor Schneider : >> AFAIK I don't need any resource specification. > Basically yes, however: > > In one of your previous posts you had the definition > > > > If you want this behaviour explicitely, you'll nee the context-definition. > > From the docs: > > [ snip ] == > > S

Re: Upgrade .. a Tomcat

2009-02-06 Thread David Smith
André Warnier wrote: > Hi. > > Now I'm going to ask a question, sotto-voce, humbly, and don't get upset. > There happens to be this Tomcat 5.5.20 you see, running under Linux > Debian Etch. It wasn't me who installed it, it was the sysadmin, and > he's a really difficult guy to relate to, and he h

RE: mod_jk

2009-02-06 Thread Gerhardus.Geldenhuis
> > 1) As far as I know, no, mod_jk does not read workers.properties > dynamically. > 2) Yes and no, it will not send a request unless communication has been > established with the worker, it may happen that the worker fails, or > someone shut it down. Depending on how you configure the workers an

Re: Backup of TOMCAT required

2009-02-06 Thread David Smith
If copying whole product installs from old server to new server works, then great. I personally would have downloaded and installed fresh, then configured the new system to match the old system and copied only the app code. Just me. --David Randhir singh wrote: > the java and tomcat version is

Re: servlet use. TC6, FC10

2009-02-06 Thread Gregor Schneider
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Dave Pawson wrote: > One final item before I leave this thread please. > > > AFAIK I don't need any resource specification. > Does this mean that I can dispense with the atom/META-INF directory > totally? I.e. it is redundant > for this usage of Tomcat? > > atom > |

Re: servlet use. TC6, FC10

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Pawson
2009/2/6 Peter Crowther : >> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.paw...@gmail.com] >> AFAIK I don't need any resource specification. >> Does this mean that I can dispense with the atom/META-INF directory >> totally? I.e. it is redundant >> for this usage of Tomcat? >> >> atom >> |-- META-INF >> | |--

RE: servlet use. TC6, FC10

2009-02-06 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.paw...@gmail.com] > AFAIK I don't need any resource specification. > Does this mean that I can dispense with the atom/META-INF directory > totally? I.e. it is redundant > for this usage of Tomcat? > > atom > |-- META-INF > | |-- context.xml > |-- WEB-INF > .

Re: servlet use. TC6, FC10

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Pawson
One final item before I leave this thread please. 2009/2/5 Caldarale, Charles R : onf//marge/atom.xml > > No. First off, unless you have something specific to define for your webapp > (e.g., a or , you don't need a element. If you > do need a , it is normally placed inside the webapp in

Re: WEB-INF/classes vs WEB-INF/lib/classes.jar file

2009-02-06 Thread Gregor Schneider
How about md5sum? Rgds Gregor -- just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you... gpgp-fp: 79A84FA526807026795E4209D3B3FE028B3170B2 gpgp-key available @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de:11371 - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: WEB-INF/classes vs WEB-INF/lib/classes.jar file

2009-02-06 Thread Mikolaj Rydzewski
André Warnier wrote: start) su - tomcatuser -c "/var/lib/jvm/java $CONFIDENTIAL_SETTINGS -jar " All of your 'confidential settings' will be visible to all users with one command: ps aux There're ways to restrict such listing to only your processes. But anyway, command line arguments

Re: WEB-INF/classes vs WEB-INF/lib/classes.jar file

2009-02-06 Thread André Warnier
Bill Barker wrote: This is totally Tomcat specific, so won't necessarily port if you decide to change containers (but without looking probably still works for GlassFish and JBoss). Tomcat does Ant style variable replacement when parsing web.xml (both the one in conf and the one in WEB-INF).

Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Pawson
Thanks Andre. That paints a good picture! Only generality I'd like to add. The "general purpose" of my-app web.xml and 'all apps' web.xml. Is it TC 'configuration' (Chaz isn't going to like that, but I do like an overview, even if it's only 80%). I'm saying config, since it provides response mime

Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Gregor Schneider
Well, I'n not Chuck, but to answer your question: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Dave Pawson wrote: > > Is a filter the right TC tool for that Charles? > Yes Rgds Gregor -- just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you... gpgp-fp: 79A84FA526807026795E4209D3B3FE028B3170B2 g

Re: WEB-INF/classes vs WEB-INF/lib/classes.jar file

2009-02-06 Thread Mikolaj Rydzewski
André Warnier wrote: In addition, it would avoid having to put some potentially sensible values in a web-xml file which has to be readable by the Tomcat user. Also some other, than web.xml, file with sensible values has to readable by Tomcat user ;-) -- Mikolaj Rydzewski ---

Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the place to constrain the mime type?

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Pawson
2009/2/5 Caldarale, Charles R : >> From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.paw...@gmail.com] >> Subject: Re: TC6 ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/web.xml Is this the >> place to constrain the mime type? >> >> Unless the client requests application/xml I want to refuse the >> request. > > I don't think you quite apprec

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