Re: parallel webapp initialization

2012-01-26 Thread Pid
On 26/01/2012 06:52, David Rees wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Pid p...@pidster.com wrote: On 24/01/2012 21:01, David Rees wrote: The system has 8 CPU cores, Opteron 2378 CPU. Going beyond 4 startStopThreads for the host where the webapps are deployed doesn't speed things up much

Re: Redirecting apache http requests to tomcat application running on 8080

2012-01-26 Thread Pid
On 26/01/2012 04:56, Monika Solanki wrote: I am using tomcat 7.x. I would like to redirect requests to a site on apache, port 80 to one of my application running on tomcat, localhost:8080. Please tell us exactly which version of Tomcat (and anything else that's relevant, e.g. HTTPD), or we may

Re: Tomcat 6.0.35-SocketException: Too many open files issue with

2012-01-26 Thread Pid
On 26/01/2012 04:53, gnath wrote: Hi Chris, Thanks a lot for looking into this and giving answers for all my questions. Sorry, i could not get chance to reply in time. As you have suggested, i started collecting the thread dumps when it happened again and we saw some kind of DBCP

Re: Tomcat 7 documentation weaknesses

2012-01-26 Thread Pid
On 26/01/2012 00:59, David Kerber wrote: On 1/25/2012 7:18 PM, André Warnier wrote: Hi. Please see this this as a constructive critic, not as a complaint. The on-line documentation of Tomcat is not always easy-to-use, particularly when one is a relatively naive (or new) Tomcat user, and

Re: Tomcat memory requirements

2012-01-26 Thread Pid
On 26/01/2012 00:25, André Warnier wrote: Pid wrote: I'm not actually a committer. Just a mailing list lurker. but you are close to the gods.. Aww shucks p -- [key:62590808] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Redirecting apache http requests to tomcat application running on 8080

2012-01-26 Thread Monika Solanki
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Pid p...@pidster.com wrote: On 26/01/2012 04:56, Monika Solanki wrote: I am using tomcat 7.x. I would like to redirect requests to a site on apache, port 80 to one of my application running on tomcat, localhost:8080. Please tell us exactly which version of

Re: not able to access URL in 2nd app in 7.0.23

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Thomas
On 26/01/2012 03:59, removeps-c...@yahoo.com wrote: When Tomcat receives an unauthenticated request for a protected resource it intercepts and saves that request, then forwards to the resource defined in the login config. True. Also, I'm not making the request through Firefox. I did that

Re: Tomcat 7 documentation weaknesses

2012-01-26 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2012/1/26 André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com: Hi. Please see this this as a constructive critic, not as a complaint. The on-line documentation of Tomcat is not always easy-to-use, particularly when one is a relatively naive (or new) Tomcat user, and does not necessarily know what precise term to

Re: Tomcat 7 documentation weaknesses

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Thomas
On 26/01/2012 00:18, André Warnier wrote: Please see this this as a constructive critic, not as a complaint. Ack. The on-line documentation of Tomcat is not always easy-to-use, particularly when one is a relatively naive (or new) Tomcat user, and does not necessarily know what precise term

Re: servers @apache.org down ?

2012-01-26 Thread André Warnier
Seems to be down again, starting just 2 minutes ago. Mark Thomas wrote: On 25/01/2012 16:44, Hassan Schroeder wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Mark Thomas ma...@apache.org wrote: tomcat.apache.org : connection reset Always check the Nagios monitoring site first:

Re: servers @apache.org down ?

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Thomas
On 26/01/2012 09:59, André Warnier wrote: Seems to be down again, starting just 2 minutes ago. Mark Thomas wrote: On 25/01/2012 16:44, Hassan Schroeder wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Mark Thomas ma...@apache.org wrote: tomcat.apache.org : connection reset Always check the Nagios

Re: servers @apache.org down ?

2012-01-26 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2012/1/26 Mark Thomas ma...@apache.org: On 26/01/2012 09:59, André Warnier wrote: Seems to be down again, starting just 2 minutes ago. Mark Thomas wrote: On 25/01/2012 16:44, Hassan Schroeder wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Mark Thomas ma...@apache.org wrote: Always check the

Tomcat mod_proxy_ajp and workers

2012-01-26 Thread baba smith
hi, i'm pretty much confused about the workers issue. my setup is an apache server and a tomcat that are connected with a mode_proxy_ajp connector. the porblem is that some time after that both are working, the tomcat stops responding to apache. the errors that i see in the apache are: 1.

Re: Upgrading Tomcat need some info

2012-01-26 Thread Josh Gooding
Konstantin - 1. Have you seen the following page? http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.htmlhttp://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html I'm getting there, I'm still perusing the change logs to see what the major differences in between 5.5 and 6 are and from 6 to 7. The application was written

Re: Tomcat mod_proxy_ajp and workers

2012-01-26 Thread Igor Cicimov
Thats the MPM worker settings for apache threads. You need to find the ajp Proxy part in your config. On Jan 26, 2012 11:14 PM, baba smith junkuri...@gmail.com wrote: hi, i'm pretty much confused about the workers issue. my setup is an apache server and a tomcat that are connected with a

Re: Tomcat mod_proxy_ajp and workers

2012-01-26 Thread André Warnier
baba smith wrote: hi, i'm pretty much confused about the workers issue. my setup is an apache server and a tomcat that are connected with a mode_proxy_ajp connector. the porblem is that some time after that both are working, the tomcat stops responding to apache. the errors that i see in the

Re: Tomcat mod_proxy_ajp and workers

2012-01-26 Thread baba smith
hi, first, thank! now: 1. in the apache side i've a file named mod_proxy_ajp.cof that is included from httpd.conf and it says: Proxy * AddDefaultCharset Off Order deny,allow Allow from all /Proxy Location /tracking ProxyPass ajp://localhost:9005/tracking/ ProxyPassReverse

ssl connection between two applications running on tomcat

2012-01-26 Thread Hemanth Gundlapudi
Hi,   we have an application running on tomcat and that needs to securely communicate with other application running on tomcat. can someone please guide me through the steps how to set up the ssl connections between these two application.   from first application :   1. the request data will be

ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks

2012-01-26 Thread Patric Rufflar
Hi, I've got some questions regards the use of ThreadLocals in context listeners: (This is a general question, but I tested this with tomcat 6.0.32 only) 1. It's unspecified in the servlet spec 2.5 if a servlet context listener is allowed to take the use of ThreadLocals during

Re: Upgrading Tomcat need some info

2012-01-26 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2012/1/26 Josh Gooding josh.good...@gmail.com: I've put 6.0.35 on a staging server and I'll be running the feeds I get in tandem through it to see if I get any memory improvement over the 5.5 server.  So as I am thumbing through thr old 5.5 server.xml file I notice something that i've not

Re: Redirecting apache http requests to tomcat application running on 8080

2012-01-26 Thread Pid
On 26/01/2012 08:50, Monika Solanki wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Pid p...@pidster.com wrote: On 26/01/2012 04:56, Monika Solanki wrote: I am using tomcat 7.x. I would like to redirect requests to a site on apache, port 80 to one of my application running on tomcat,

RE: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks

2012-01-26 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Patric Rufflar [mailto:pat...@rufflar.com] Subject: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks It's unspecified in the servlet spec 2.5 if a servlet context listener is allowed to take the use of ThreadLocals during contextInitialized(). I have no idea what the phrase

Re: ssl connection between two applications running on tomcat

2012-01-26 Thread Pid
On 26/01/2012 14:03, Hemanth Gundlapudi wrote: Hi, we have an application running on tomcat and that needs to securely communicate with other application running on tomcat. can someone please guide me through the steps how to set up the ssl connections between these two application.

RE: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks

2012-01-26 Thread Patric Rufflar
I have no idea what the phrase take the use of means; what are you trying to say? I'd like to know if there's some statement from the tomcat team if the usage of ThreadLocals within contextInitialized() is discouraged or even not supported. ??? A ThreadLocal is _not_ inherited from the

RE: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks

2012-01-26 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Patric Rufflar [mailto:pat...@rufflar.com] Subject: RE: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks 1. contextInitializer() sets value A to the ThreadLocal X in thread main 2. childs threads get spawned from main thread, now we have more than one ThreadLocal which

Re: ssl connection between two applications running on tomcat

2012-01-26 Thread André Warnier
Hemanth Gundlapudi wrote: Hi, we have an application running on tomcat and that needs to securely communicate with other application running on tomcat. can someone please guide me through the steps how to set up the ssl connections between these two application. I think that the way to do

RE: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks

2012-01-26 Thread Patric Rufflar
Am 26.01.2012 16:59, schrieb Caldarale, Charles R: No; again, a ThreadLocal is _not_ inherited, but an InheritableThreadLocal is. These are different animals. 1. A InheritableThreadLocal is (extends) a ThreadLocal. 2. Surprise: A InheritableThreadLocal is _not_ used for the

Re: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Thomas
On 26/01/2012 15:16, Patric Rufflar wrote: I have no idea what the phrase take the use of means; what are you trying to say? I'd like to know if there's some statement from the tomcat team if the usage of ThreadLocals within contextInitialized() is discouraged or even not supported. OK.

Re: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks

2012-01-26 Thread Jess Holle
On 1/26/2012 10:38 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: OK. ThreadLocals have no place in a web application. Period. If a programmer insists on using them, then it is their responsibility to clean up the mess they leave behind. Tomcat's memory leak detection and prevention code goes some way to clearing up

RE: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks

2012-01-26 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Jess Holle [mailto:je...@ptc.com] Subject: Re: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks That said, there could and arguably should be another choice: I'll suggest something more radical: define a class such as ScopeLocal where values are added to and removed from threads

Re: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks

2012-01-26 Thread Pid
On 26/01/2012 17:30, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Jess Holle [mailto:je...@ptc.com] Subject: Re: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks That said, there could and arguably should be another choice: I'll suggest something more radical: define a class such as ScopeLocal

SSL client auth

2012-01-26 Thread Harish S K
I am trying to open a https URL on IBM webshpere where ClientAuth is enabled. In response I was getting HTTP 403 whereas the URL can be accessed through http. On debugging further, it looks like the client is not sending the client certificate in response to server's request. In some forum

Re: Tomcat 6.0.35-SocketException: Too many open files issue with

2012-01-26 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G, On 1/25/12 11:53 PM, gnath wrote: As you have suggested, i started collecting the thread dumps Thread dumps will set you free. Well, not really. Instead, they will tell you where your webapp is breaking, which usually means more work for you.

Re: connection autoReconnect?

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel Mikusa
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 07:46 -0800, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I migrated to Tomcat 7.0 a couple of months ago on several servers. Ever since moving to 7, I periodically get the following exception on MySql calls on all of my 7.0 servers: Exception:

RE: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks

2012-01-26 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Pid [mailto:p...@pidster.com] Subject: Re: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks Imagine the fiendishly clever and machiavellian applications we'd have to debug if you did that... Job security. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE

Re: Problem with apache sharing tomcat files

2012-01-26 Thread André Warnier
Luciano Andress Martini wrote: Tomcat creates files as tomcat user, which is not acessible by apache2, how can i correct this, and make apache to share this files? I cannot think of a file which a standard Tomcat would create, which would need to be accessible by a standard Apache httpd. You

Re: Problem with apache sharing tomcat files

2012-01-26 Thread David kerber
On 1/26/2012 12:20 PM, Luciano Andress Martini wrote: Tomcat creates files as tomcat user, which is not acessible by apache2, how can i correct this, and make apache to share this files? For want of sufficiently detailed information to really help, I'm shooting in the dark here, but try

Re: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks

2012-01-26 Thread Pid
On 26/01/2012 17:48, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Pid [mailto:p...@pidster.com] Subject: Re: ThreadLocals, context listeners and classloader leaks Imagine the fiendishly clever and machiavellian applications we'd have to debug if you did that... Job security. ROFL. p --

[OT] Inspecting JMX

2012-01-26 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I'm trying to get into the business of inspecting my JVM using the mbeans that Tomcat (and the JVM) expose, but I'm having great difficulty. I'm not even sure if I'm doing the right things. I have a running Tomcat instance (happens to be 7.0.25

RE: [OT] Inspecting JMX

2012-01-26 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Subject: [OT] Inspecting JMX Should I just give up and use JmxRemoteLifecycleListener? Yes. You really aren't get to get anywhere on EC2 without it. Should I hack the code for check_jmx to use the Attach API. Maybe; might

Re: connection autoReconnect?

2012-01-26 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan, On 1/26/12 12:45 PM, Daniel Mikusa wrote: I agree that it looks like you have specified autoReconnect correctly, but I'm no expert there. +1 autoReconnect has been specified properly, but you have to understand what it does: autoReconnect

Re: [OT] Inspecting JMX

2012-01-26 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, On 1/26/12 1:41 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Subject: [OT] Inspecting JMX Should I just give up and use JmxRemoteLifecycleListener? Yes. You really aren't get to get

Re: Problem with apache sharing tomcat files

2012-01-26 Thread Luciano Andress Martini
Right. First sorry about my bad english, im from Brazil. We have a server running Xen Hypervisor. In Domain 0 , we have apache2 and an NFS share. ADM, CONV, CRED, ESTAB, SERVIDOR, POS are virtual machines with... tam tam tam tam... tomcat6. ADM, CONV, CRED, ESTAB, SERVIDOR, POS, have shared

Re: [OT] Inspecting JMX

2012-01-26 Thread Kees Jan Koster
Dear Chris, Should I just give up and use JmxRemoteLifecycleListener? Yes. You really aren't get to get anywhere on EC2 without it. I figured since I was using localhost everything would stay there anyway. I'll give JmxRemoteLifecycleListener a chance. Or you could write a small piece

Re: [OT] Inspecting JMX

2012-01-26 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kees Jan, On 1/26/12 1:52 PM, Kees Jan Koster wrote: Dear Chris, Should I just give up and use JmxRemoteLifecycleListener? Yes. You really aren't get to get anywhere on EC2 without it. I figured since I was using localhost everything would

Problems after reinstall - Sorry, trying again.

2012-01-26 Thread Benjamin Madore
Hi all, Sorry, I'm new to the list and I hope that my first message didn't breech some kind of etiquette or do something to get caught in everyone's spam filter. I have spent hours trying to find an answer, and I keep going around in circles, I'm not sure where to look next. Here's my problem:

Re: ssl connection between two applications running on tomcat

2012-01-26 Thread removeps-code
If the 2nd application is secured by SSL, then the 1st application can send requests to it, just like like it would to any other application. If using self-signed certificates you might need to export the certificate if necessary, import it into a truststore, and use the

Re: [OT] Inspecting JMX

2012-01-26 Thread André Warnier
Chris, independently of anything else, you may want to have a look at jmxsh http://code.google.com/p/jmxsh/ It is interactive as well as scriptable. (If I, who do not understand much about JMX and mbeans (or even java), managed to use it with Tomcat and other stand-alone java applications, it

Re: [OT] Inspecting JMX

2012-01-26 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck On 1/26/12 1:41 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Subject: [OT] Inspecting JMX Should I just give up and use JmxRemoteLifecycleListener? Yes. You really aren't get to get

Re: [OT] Inspecting JMX

2012-01-26 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 1/26/12 3:30 PM, André Warnier wrote: independently of anything else, you may want to have a look at jmxsh http://code.google.com/p/jmxsh/ Now that I have *something* working, I can experiment to see what other things work as well :)

Re: [OT] Inspecting JMX

2012-01-26 Thread André Warnier
Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 1/26/12 3:30 PM, André Warnier wrote: independently of anything else, you may want to have a look at jmxsh http://code.google.com/p/jmxsh/ Now that I have *something* working, I can experiment to see what

Re: [OT] Inspecting JMX

2012-01-26 Thread Pid
On 26/01/2012 20:33, Christopher Schultz wrote: Chuck On 1/26/12 1:41 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Subject: [OT] Inspecting JMX Should I just give up and use JmxRemoteLifecycleListener? Yes. You really aren't get to

Re: ssl connection between two applications running on tomcat

2012-01-26 Thread Pid
On 26/01/2012 20:01, removeps-c...@yahoo.com wrote: If the 2nd application is secured by SSL, then the 1st application can send requests to it, just like like it would to any other application. If using self-signed certificates you might need to export the certificate if necessary, import

Re: Problems after reinstall - Sorry, trying again.

2012-01-26 Thread Pid
On 26/01/2012 20:00, Benjamin Madore wrote: Hi all, Sorry, I'm new to the list and I hope that my first message didn't breech some kind of etiquette or do something to get caught in everyone's spam filter. I have spent hours trying to find an answer, and I keep going around in circles,

Re: SSL client auth

2012-01-26 Thread Pid
On 26/01/2012 17:37, Harish S K wrote: I am trying to open a https URL on IBM webshpere where ClientAuth is enabled. In response I was getting HTTP 403 whereas the URL can be accessed through http. On debugging further, it looks like the client is not sending the client certificate in

Re: connection autoReconnect?

2012-01-26 Thread Jerry Malcolm
Thanks to all for the assistance. I'll try adding those parameters. But I'm always a bit nervous about possibly just band-aiding a problem that I don't really understand. Regarding the defensive coding approach, this error often occurs on the sql query by the internal TC security authentication

RE: Problems after reinstall - Sorry, trying again.

2012-01-26 Thread Benjamin Madore
-Original Message- From: Pid [mailto:p...@pidster.com] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:44 PM To: Tomcat Users List vSubject: Re: Problems after reinstall - Sorry, trying again. On 26/01/2012 20:00, Benjamin Madore wrote: Hi all, Sorry, I'm new to the list and I hope that my first

RE: Problems after reinstall - Sorry, trying again.

2012-01-26 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Benjamin Madore [mailto:bc...@pitt.edu] Subject: RE: Problems after reinstall - Sorry, trying again. 136.142.248.135 - - [24/Jan/2012:14:02:20 -0500] POST /eli2121/login.jsp HTTP/1.1 302 - The above looks ok. 136.142.248.135 - - [24/Jan/2012:14:02:20 -0500] GET /eli2121/home.jsp

RE: connection autoReconnect?

2012-01-26 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Jerry Malcolm [mailto:2ndgenfi...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: connection autoReconnect? Basically, TC grabs a handful of connections and opens them up. The Tomcat JDBC pool (not sure about the commons one) opens up whatever is configured for initialSize. Then when an app needs one, a

Re: connection autoReconnect?

2012-01-26 Thread Mark Eggers
- Original Message - From: Jerry Malcolm 2ndgenfi...@gmail.com To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 2:58 PM Subject: Re: connection autoReconnect? T hanks to all for the assistance.  I'll try adding those parameters.  But I'm always a

RE: SSL client auth

2012-01-26 Thread Harish S K
Actually, the server is IBM WAS and the client is running in Tomcat which runs on JRE6, I assume it uses JSSE libraries from jre6. I never faced this problem if the same client program runs on IBM WAS which uses IBM's java runtime and SSL handlers. So it could be a JRE problem rather than

Re: Tomcat 6.0.35-SocketException: Too many open files issue with

2012-01-26 Thread gnath
Hello Chris, After seeing the initial connection pool issue, i started searching online for help and i found this article : http://vigilbose.blogspot.com/2009/03/apache-commons-dbcp-and-tomcat-jdbc.html so, i thought may be tomcat's jar would bring some improvement. by the way, we had

Dead lock with tomcat-jdbc.jar on Tomcat 6.0.35

2012-01-26 Thread gnath
Hello all, So we have 2 Linux servers running our application with  Tomcat-6.0.35, JDK 1.6.30. We are using: tomcat-jdbc.jar (Verison 1.1.1), mysql-connector-java-3.1.12-bin.jar We have 'removeAbandoned' flag to true in our configuration. We initially had commons-dbcp.jar 1.3 version and as

Re: Dead lock with tomcat-jdbc.jar on Tomcat 6.0.35

2012-01-26 Thread gnath
Hi All, Quick update: after i looked at the dead lock trace, it looked to me like an issue with mysql driver jar. As i mentioned that we are using mysql-connector-java.3.1.12-bin.jar, and i have been seeing these bugs that are filed against something related to deadlock: