Tutorial - How to Set Up Lucee in Tomcat

I published a blog post with an accompanying video tutorial about setting up Lucee in Tomcat.  While there are some Lucee-specific elements in the tutorial, most of it is applicable to any servlet setup, covering CATALINA_HOME, CATALINA_BASE, and the recently added makebase utility. I hope

Re: creation of virtual directories

On 6/12/2018 10:48 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: You want http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/config/resources.html You'd add something like this: Which would make the content of W:\some\path visible at the root of the web application. Note that normally handling will apply. So,

Re: IIS authentication applies to static but not dynamic requests (servlets, JSPs). Any way to control that?

Charlie, On 6/11/2018 2:38 PM, charlie arehart wrote: Folks, I have found that if Windows authentication (NTLM) is enabled for a site (or folder) in IIS, such authentication does apply (and is honored) for static files (html, images) but NOT dynamic ones (servlets, JSPs). Is that intended?

Re: [ANN] New committer: Igal Sapir

On 5/25/2018 3:38 AM, Felix Schumacher wrote: > Congrats, >  Felix > > Am 24. Mai 2018 21:09:06 MESZ schrieb Mark Thomas : >> On behalf of the Tomcat committers I am pleased to announce that >> Igal Sapir (isapir) has been voted in as a new Tomcat committer. Thank you all! It

Re: 8.5.24 not able to get to the screen for login info

On 5/21/2018 3:46 PM, Sri Linux wrote: Few servers give 403 access denined error when i click on webapss or server status Do you require authentication for those applications? If so, make sure that you've set that up properly in the new installation, e.g. in conf/tomcat-users.xml or whatever

Re: Tool to analyze the core/heap dump

On 2/5/2018 11:15 AM, Johan Compagner wrote: Jvisualvm that ships with java8 or yourkit (you can evaluate for some time) Op 5 feb. 2018 19:43 schreef "D, Dwarakesh (External)" < dwarakes...@xerox.com>: We have core and heap dump files generated from tomcat in our Solaris server. Is there any

Re: Mysql vs Postgress

On 1/24/2018 1:37 PM, Loai Abdallatif wrote: Dear all I have project that is based on Tomcat/apache Servers , any one can help regarding the best DB engine * mysql or Postgress ) keeping in mind that I'm interested in DB clustering/Replication feature ? Kind Regards, Very opinionated

OutOfMemoryError when Uploading Files

Hello, I am troubleshooting a servlet which is used to upload files. Small files under 25mb are processed properly.  Large files over 50mb are processed properly.  Files with size in the range of 25mb -- 50mb fail with OutOfMemoryError. Unfortunately I do not get a Stack Trace.  Instead of

Re: Upgrade from tomcat 7 to tomcat 8.5 (UNCLASSIFIED)

On 11/7/2017 12:49 PM, Lueders, Paul T CIV USARMY NGIC (US) wrote: CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED I have been tasked with determining what we should use as a web server in the future. We are currently using tomcat 7 and I thought that it might be good to migrate to version 8.5. Is the change

Re: Consecutive double slashes in URLs

Maor, On 10/17/2017 6:32 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 16/10/17 21:50, Maor Shiffman wrote: Hi, We've recently upgraded our servers from 8.0.43 to 8.0.45 and URLs with consecutive double slashes that used to work such as http://www.domain.com/auth//signin.html stopped working - getting a 404.

Re: URL-encoding and "#"

On 10/13/2017 10:42 AM, André Warnier (tomcat) wrote: Mmm. You are being a bit casuistic here. (Granted, not that I wasn't.) In the real world, I would expect that 99% of what is ever POSTed, /is/ form data. Not you ? 10 years ago I would have agreed, but with REST services there are many

Re: ISAPI and IIS 10 Logging Issue

On 10/6/2017 8:27 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 10.05.2017 8:54, Thomas, Michael wrote: Unfortunately I am not getting much traction with Microsoft. From the IIS forum, it looks like they are pointing the finger in the direction of the "third-party" that is writing the module. That is

Re: [Bug 47410] Using Request#getStream() while reading parameters

Volkan, On 9/19/2017 10:47 AM, Volkan Yazıcı wrote: Did not try (or consider) using a Tomcat Valve, since it would make the entire tool Tomcat-specific. I would rather find a way to solve the problem in a container agnostic way. I had a similar issue so I wrote a simple Filter and named it

Re: [ANN] Webinar: Tomcat and MoSKito

On 8/24/2017 12:55 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 03/08/17 15:18, Mark Thomas wrote: The webinar will be recorded and the recording made available on the Tomcat YouTube channel shortly afterwards. As promised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RCkx-hGK1Q on the Apache Tomcat YouTube channel:

Re: TomcatCon London - registration open

On 8/22/2017 1:29 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 22/08/17 21:19, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote: How does one become a committer? (asking from Los Angeles but willing to relocate to India if that would improve my chances :]) The most obvious is by providing patches / pull requests for issues. Do that often

Re: TomcatCon London - registration open

On 8/22/2017 1:08 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 22/08/17 19:23, Suvendu Sekhar Mondal wrote: Just wondering when we will have TomcatCon in India... :) Just as soon as we get a committer based in India :) How does one become a committer? (asking from Los Angeles but willing to relocate to India

Re: [ANN] Webinar: Tomcat and MoSKito

On 8/21/2017 5:55 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: Your help to spread the word would be much appreciated. Please forward the details to anyone (colleagues, customers, etc.) you know you may be interested. I posted this to the Lucee forum https://dev.lucee.org/t/tomcatcon/2647/2 Many of our users run

Re: This is weird: can't bind to 443

On 8/6/2017 9:23 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: Are those recordings available? I'm specifically interested in the Tomcat ones. Yes, they are available on YouTube. For some reason, nobody has bothered to link them to the ASF's YouTube channel... I've created a playlist for the videoed Tomcat

Re: This is weird: can't bind to 443

Chris, On 8/4/2017 2:39 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: Yes, they are available on YouTube. For some reason, nobody has bothered to link them to the ASF's YouTube channel... they are a "playlist" for ApacheCon 2017 - Miami: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbzoR-pLrL6pLDCyPxByWQwYTL-JrF5Rp

Re: This is weird: can't bind to 443

Hi Chris, On 8/3/2017 11:39 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: On 8/3/17 2:22 PM, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote: Was it priced? What would have been the cost for doing that? The cost was $3000/room/day (as quoted to me by Shane Curcuru -- I asked because I was curious at the time). Thanks for the info

Re: This is weird: can't bind to 443

Hi Mark, On 8/3/2017 11:05 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 03/08/17 17:59, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote: Too bad there are no video recordings of these presentations. I'd love to watch them and I'm sure that many users would as well. Unfortunately, not everyone can attend the conventions due to one

Re: This is weird: can't bind to 443

On 8/3/2017, Christopher Schultz wrote: For my money, I'd front Tomcat with something else, if only for load-balancing and fail-over capabilities. If you have a reverse proxy, the port number becomes irrelevant. +1 http://schd.ws/hosted_files/apachecon2017/93/TomcatOpenSSL.pdf Start on slide

Re: [ANN] Webinar: Tomcat and MoSKito

On 8/3/2017 7:18 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: The Tomcat community is hosting a webinar by Leon Rosenberg: Topic: Tomcat and MoSKito Time: Aug 24, 2017 14:00 UTC Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://pivotal.zoom.us/j/949439493 The webinar will be recorded and the recording made

Re: This is weird: can't bind to 443

Chris, On 8/2/2017 3:10 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: On 8/2/17 3:13 PM, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote: On 8/2/2017 11:48 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: I recommend fronting Tomcat with a web server like nginx or httpd, This is an okay solution but it requires another component to be installed

Re: This is weird: can't bind to 443

On 8/2/2017 11:48 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: James H. H. Lampert [mailto:jam...@touchtonecorp.com] Subject: Re: This is weird: can't bind to 443 Binding on ports < 1024 on Linux require elevated permissions, no? If so, somebody please elaborate. That's a Linux restriction/feature -

Re: This is weird: can't bind to 443

On 8/2/2017 11:13 AM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: I've just got finished moving a Tomcat instance's HTTPS connector from 8443 to 443, on a Google Compute Engine Debian instance (from Bitnami's canned Trac image). Something I've done literally dozens of times on AS/400s, along with the

Re: [OT] Unable to install Tomcat 9 on Windows 10

On 7/26/2017 11:00 AM, Berneburg, Cris J. - US wrote: I'm not such a miserable bastard as this thread would indicate Sounds like a great sig for you. ;-)  (that's a "Laughing Tears" emoji if it doesn't render right) -

Re: [OT] Unable to install Tomcat 9 on Windows 10

Mark, On 7/21/2017 10:47 AM, Mark Eggers wrote: 1. Watching a log file is not easy. No "tail". No command-line tools to look at text files, other than "TYPE". Want to see that log file? Open in Notepad. Oh, is your log file too big? Sorry, try a different GUI editor. Oh, does your log file

Re: [OT] Unable to install Tomcat 9 on Windows 10

On 7/20/2017 11:16 AM, Roparzh Hemon wrote: On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: 4. Java on Windows is a nightmare. If you want to quip about moving to a "real server OS," then suggest switching to a UNIX-like OS, where the Real Servers run

Re: Unable to install Tomcat 9 on Windows 10

On 7/20/2017 8:06 AM, Roparzh Hemon wrote: Should I create that Apps directory ? Yes. You can name it anything you want, but "Apps" is short and semantic in my opinion, so that's the simplest way. Then you don't have to worry about the space nor permissions. Igal Sapir Lucee Core

Re: Unable to install Tomcat 9 on Windows 10

On 7/20/2017 7:44 AM, Roparzh Hemon wrote: I created a C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 9.0 again directory next to the original one, and retried the installation process with that location for the install directory, but the problem and error message stayed the same.

Re: Reverse proxy support in Tomcat

On 7/18/2017 6:29 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: Note: Passing on the host header can require explicit configuration. In the proxy. e.g. for httpd: ProxyPreserveHost On The best tool that I found to set up reverse proxy is Tomcat's RemoteIpFilter --

Register ServletRequestListener from OSGi Bundle

Hello, I have a JSR-356 (WebSocket API) code that is packaged in an OSGi bundle. The servlet loads the code via Apache Felix if needed. I want to register a ServletRequestListener, which I would normally put in the web descriptor: path.to.my.RequestListener but since the bundle is

Re: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

Chris, On 5/20/2017 4:37 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: This is roughly what we do as well: our ant-based build scripts build server.xml (and context.xml for that matter) from a set of properties that are specific to the application (and environment). And of course Tomcat is started/stopped

Re: AW: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

On 5/17/2017 12:41 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: That simple approach is incomplete. It assumes that: a) the JARs in $CATALINA_HOME/bin haven't changed b) the names of the JARs in $CATALINA_HOME/lib haven't changed c) no configuration changes are required. a) sometimes happens b) happens when the

Re: What jar files do I need to have a java ee website to connect to the databse

On 5/16/2017 12:15 PM, Yosef Fastow wrote: The server version is not supported. The target server must be SQL Server 2000 or later. Well, what version is the SQL Server that you are trying to connect to? - To unsubscribe,

Re: AW: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

On 5/16/2017 8:27 AM, Kreuser, Peter wrote: I'd say a more robust (and the documented way) is to use a Tomcat-Home directory and a Tomcat-Base Directory. $CATALINA_HOME holds the actual distributed Tomcat-"Binaries" (ZIP/TGZ), $CATALINA_BASE holds your adapted config, libs and webapps. This

Re: how to upgrade tomcat 8.5.x?

On 5/16/2017 6:37 AM, modjkl...@comcast.net wrote: I assume I need to shutdown Tomcat. Then, is there a set of directories I should just replace to perform the update? Are these directories listed somewhere? Then do I just restart Tomcat to finalize the update? Any advice much appreciated

Re: [OT] MoSkito

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: If there is interest, and Leon has the time, we can set up a webinar. I can not attend ApachCon in person this year, but would love to attend a webinar. Igal Sapir Lucee Core Developer Lucee.org

Re: [OT] MoSkito (was: ApacheCon anyone?)

Leon, On 5/12/2017 3:32 PM, Leon Rosenberg wrote: > > Yeah, strange isn't it? Unfortunately I haven't submitted and my decision > to come to apache con was rather spontaneous... But, know what Chris ? > You'll be there, I'll be there and my notebook will be there too, so you > can have a private

Re: Problem with cookie values in 8.5.14

On 4/26/2017 12:48 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: I suggest you read the changelog for 8.5.x. Hint. Start with the entries for 8.5.0. Got it. I thought that this was a minor update. I've been running Tomcat 8.5.x for a while now so I guess I was not affected by that change. Thanks, Igal

Re: Problem with cookie values in 8.5.14

On 4/26/2017 11:55 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: In short, yes there is a conflict. RFC 6265 does not permit ',' (and a bunch of other characters) to be used in the value and provides no escape or encoding syntax for including these characters. RFC 2109 allows quoted string to be used. In this

Re: Websocket & Logging

et.org, this one is working. On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Igal @ Lucee.org <i...@lucee.org> wrote: Can you access it in a non-secure protocol? i.e. ws:// instaed of wss://? Testing that can help eliminate possible issues. Igal Sapir Lucee Core Developer Lucee.org <http://lucee.

Re: Websocket & Logging

3/call On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Igal @ Lucee.org <i...@lucee.org> wrote: On 3/29/2017 2:17 AM, Addy D wrote: Hello all, I am facing an issue in my application, I want to know following things. 1. The tomcat is returning 404 for upgrade header (request to upgrade to websocket protocol

Re: Websocket & Logging

On 3/29/2017 2:17 AM, Addy D wrote: Hello all, I am facing an issue in my application, I want to know following things. 1. The tomcat is returning 404 for upgrade header (request to upgrade to websocket protocol). Do I need to configure anything here? What's the Endpoint that you've set up

Re: Tomcat Not Responding (Resolved)

The only thing I saw in stderr were NPE stack traces from the servlet I'm running which did not seem to include any Tomcat code. Keep in mind that I'm running Tomcat 8.5.12 so a more current source repo is available at https://github.com/apache/tomcat85/ With the file that you cited at

Re: Tomcat Not Responding (Resolved)

Chris, On 3/24/2017 2:13 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Igal, On 3/24/17 1:22 PM, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote: I've traced the issue to an NPE thrown from my servlet. I patched it (https://github.com/lucee/Lucee/commit/0f30a7ef) and now it works

Re: Tomcat Not Responding (Resolved)

On 3/23/2017 1:43 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: If Tomcat is unresponsive, that would suggest a problem with either the Acceptor or the Poller but both of those threads look normal to. You are going to need to do some more debugging. Ideally, you need to configure your favourite IDE to do remote

Re: location of tomcat-juli.jar

I'm using different directories for CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE without copying the bin directory to BASE. Never had an issue with it. Be sure to have the full path of tomcat-juli.jar in the Java Classpath setting. That's what matters to Java. You can place the Jar file anywhere you

Re: Tomcat 8.5.12 Not Responding

Looks like all the threads are waiting on the same lock? parking to wait for <0x0006c09932f8> (a java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock$NonfairSync) Igal Sapir Lucee Core Developer Lucee.org <http://lucee.org/> On 3/22/2017 8:50 AM, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote:

Re: Tomcat 8.5.12 Not Responding

Hi Violeta, On 3/22/2017 9:20 AM, Violeta Georgieva wrote: Please provide information for your Connector configuration (server.xml) The only connector that is in use is the http connector: connectionTimeout="2" /> All the others are commented out. Igal

Tomcat 8.5.12 Not Responding

I am running an application on Tomcat 8.5.12 on Windows 2008R2 64bit with Server JRE 1.8.0u121. Right now the process is still running but no requests are being processed, or take a very long time to process. For example, I created a simple test.html file with one line of html and it took

Re: [ANN] TomcatCon schedule announced

On 3/9/2017 11:42 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: We typically make these available free of charge. For past Tomcat related sessions see: http://tomcat.apache.org/presentations.html We should have audio for more of those. I'll see if I can track it down. Thanks for the link! I've been on that Tomcat

Re: [ANN] TomcatCon schedule announced

This is great, but unfortunately I will not be able to attend in person due to scheduling conflicts. Will the sessions be recorded? I'd be willing to pay a reasonable fee to watch them afterwards. Thanks, Igal Sapir Lucee Core Developer Lucee.org On 3/9/2017 6:08 AM,

Re: TomcatCon @ ApacheCon

On 1/9/2017 3:57 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: "What topic(s) need to be covered in a Tomcat conference to make it as easy as possible to get your employer to pay for you to attend?" load balancing performance security - To

Re: WebSocket Handshake returns Unexpected Response Code 500

, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote: On 12/6/2016 4:25 PM, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote: This is a cross post with http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41007216/websocket-handshake-on-tomcat-returns-unexpected-response-code-500 : I have a WebSocket application that registers the endpoint programmatically, w

Re: WebSocket Handshake returns Unexpected Response Code 500

On 12/6/2016 4:25 PM, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote: This is a cross post with http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41007216/websocket-handshake-on-tomcat-returns-unexpected-response-code-500 : I have a WebSocket application that registers the endpoint programmatically, without the use

WebSocket Handshake returns Unexpected Response Code 500

This is a cross post with http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41007216/websocket-handshake-on-tomcat-returns-unexpected-response-code-500 : I have a WebSocket application that registers the endpoint programmatically, without the use of Annotations. The relevant code is:

Re: Sanity Check

On 11/21/2016 9:09 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: André, :) Cute, very cute. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org

Re: Allow Customization of service.bat

Hi Violeta, On 11/7/2016 10:04 AM, Violeta Georgieva wrote: The fix is available in: - trunk for 9.0.0.M14 onwards - 8.5.x for 8.5.9 onwards Awesome, thanks! Igal - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Allow Customization of service.bat

Violeta, On 10/20/2016 11:10 PM, Violeta Georgieva wrote: Here [1] it is described how you can report a bug. Attach the patch to the bug. When you attaching the file there is a checkbox "patch". We also accept PRs from GitHub [2]. [1]

Re: Setting up a Context outside of webapps

#Defining_a_ context The files go where the files go. The contents are not terribly relevant. What kind of example were you looking for? - -chris On 10/21/2016 1:21 AM, r.bott...@afterbit.com wrote: Hello, did you received some real config? Roberto. -Messaggio originale- Da: Igal @

Re: Allow Customization of service.bat

Chris, On 10/21/2016 12:05 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: For some reason I thought that I read somewhere that the git repo is read-only. I didn't realize that I can submit a PR there. It *is* read-only. But you can clone the repo and make a read-write copy, then publish a pull-request from

Re: Setting up a Context outside of webapps

. -Messaggio originale- Da: Igal @ Lucee.org [mailto:i...@lucee.org] Inviato: venerdì 7 ottobre 2016 21:57 A: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> Oggetto: Re: Host appBase vs. Context docBase Suppose you tell us your Tomcat version. I'm using Tomcat 8.5.5 -- not sure how re

Setting up a Context outside of webapps (was: Host appBase vs. Context docBase)

Developer Lucee.org <http://lucee.org/> On 10/21/2016 1:21 AM, r.bott...@afterbit.com wrote: Hello, did you received some real config? Roberto. -Messaggio originale- Da: Igal @ Lucee.org [mailto:i...@lucee.org] Inviato: venerdì 7 ottobre 2016 21:57 A: Tomcat Users List

Re: Allow Customization of service.bat

Thanks Violeta, On 10/20/2016 11:10 PM, Violeta Georgieva wrote: We also accept PRs from GitHub [2]. [2] https://github.com/apache/tomcat For some reason I thought that I read somewhere that the git repo is read-only. I didn't realize that I can submit a PR there. I'll do that. Igal

Re: Allow Customization of service.bat

Hi Mark, On 10/20/2016 1:19 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: Can I submit a patch for that? Sure. Got for it. I'm not very familiar with SVN (hopefully Apache will move to GIT soon), so I wasn't sure where to submit the patch. The Apache Contributors Guide suggests the bug tracking platform.

Allow Customization of service.bat

service.bat is a great tool to install and remove Tomcat as a Windows service, but it has a few hardcoded values that should be customize-able, like the heap memory size and JVM args. I've modified the script slightly to address these issues. The first part sets default values: if

Re: Host appBase vs. Context docBase

have been nice to see some real life examples of complete configurations. Igal Sapir Lucee Core Developer Lucee.org <http://lucee.org/> On 10/7/2016 12:39 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Igal @ Lucee.org [mailto:i...@lucee.org] Subject: Host appBase vs. Context docBase Suppose that

Host appBase vs. Context docBase

Hi, Suppose that I have an application at C:\WebApps\App1 Is it better to set it up as Host appBase (option 1) or as Context docBase with empty path (option 2): Thanks, Igal Sapir Lucee Core Developer Lucee.org

Re: Access Log Value Timestamp Format

ok, I figured it out: %{-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ}t thanks, Igal Sapir Lucee Core Developer Lucee.org http://lucee.org/ On 5/11/2015 4:08 PM, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote: hi, is it possible to format the timestamp in the AccessLogValues in ISO8601? thanks, -- Igal Sapir Lucee Core

Access Log Value Timestamp Format

hi, is it possible to format the timestamp in the AccessLogValues in ISO8601? thanks, -- Igal Sapir Lucee Core Developer Lucee.org http://lucee.org/