On Mon, 9 May 2005, Steve Jacobson wrote: > All, > > We have been looking for a comprehensive System Administrator's Guide > for Tomcat, that looks at Tomcat from the perspective of a System > Administrator that needs to deploy tomcat and applications on tomcat. > Most of what we have googled concentrates on deploying tomcat for a > developer, or a development environment. Many SysAdmins don't actually > speak java, though, and would be looking for a guide to be able to > support java applications on their servers without having to become java > experts themselves. > > We are also looking for any tools that might be used to verify a > successful installation of tomcat, beyond the index.jsp, and manager and > admin tools. Has anyone written anything that goes through and makes > sure that tomcat is installed correctly, and that everything is set up > properly, as an installation verification tool? > > For both the documentation, and the tools, if we can't find anything > that I think fully addresses this need, we will take a stab at producing > both. Does anyone have any thoughts / suggestions / requests, etc... > for such documentation and tools to include? Also, do people think that > there might be a place within the tomcat documentation and distribution > for these, or should we just target making them available on our own site?
My guide to installing Tomcat for production on virtual linux :- http://www.mythic-beasts.com/support/topic_vds_java.html How to set up virtual hosting with Tomcat :- http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/tomcat-vhost.html Note that this guide is how to make Tomcat behave like apache - one directory per virtual host and everything in configuration files - rather than the seemingly recommended way with point and click gooey goodness for updating things. Other people will also complain that I don't explain tomcat + apache + connector. To my mind the extra configuration hassle of maintaining all the configuration in all three places out weighs the performance increase you get from doing it. I'd dearly love someone to write a decent guide to installing and configuring Tomcat (with or without apache) that's simple to follow, aimed at the system administrator and explains all the common cases. I'd also like to see, How to build a small cluster of Tomcat instances that cope with failover nicely. How to configure tomcat with meaningful security between virtual hosts - the equivalent of suexec in apache limiting different users to different directories. How to deal with applications that drop into an infinite loop without taking the server offline. How to disable TCPIP shutdown without recompiling Tomcat. How to make changes to the configuration without a full restart (i.e. doing the equivalent of apachectrl graceful on a running instance). Actually I'd like to see a single guide / script that did all of this in one easy to use go. Yours, Pete Stevens -- Pete Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/ While SIP typically is used over UDP or TCP, it could, without technical changes, be run over IPX, or carrier pigeons, frame relay, ATM AAL5 or X.25, in rough order of desireability. -- SIP Overview document --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
