-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Brian,
On 4/21/15 3:21 PM, Brian Jones wrote: > Chris, thanks for getting back to me! > >>> I'm trying to override the default cookie name (JSESSIONID) for >>> one of my Tomcat7 instances. I put the following in >>> $catalina_home/conf/context.xml: >>> >>> <Context sessionCookieName="MyCookie"> >> >> That will change the session cookie name for all applications >> deployed on the server, and not just one web application. Is that >> what you wanted ? > > Yes, this is what I'm after. I'm working on an enterprise > application which is comprised of over 70 webapps all working > together. I need to change it for everything, as they all obey a > single cookie. > >>> However, after restarting Tomcat, the setting isn't being >>> applied; the cookie always remains as JSESSIONID rather than >>> MyCookie. >>> >>> My environment is: tomcat 7.0.39, java 1.7.0_79, kubuntu >>> 14.10. >>> >>> Can anyone shed some light on how/where >>> $catalina_home/conf/context.xml is loaded? Or any ideas, >>> suggestions, etc are appreciated. >> >> I would have expected what you did to work. Do you have a >> separate CATALINA_BASE as well as a CATALINA_HOME? If so, the >> CATALINA_BASE/conf/context.xml will *completely override* the one >> in CATALINA_HOME/conf/context.xml. > > I don't believe so, output from ./shutdown.sh: > > Using CATALINA_BASE: /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.39 Using > CATALINA_OWL: /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.39 Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: > /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/temp Using JRE_HOME: > /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64 Using CLASSPATH: > /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/ bin/tomcat-juli.jar > > > >> >> It would probably be better to set the configuration in your web >> application's META-INF/context.xml file. Give that a try and see >> if it gives you the desired effect. > > The problem with doing this, is that as the application is open > source, modifying each subtool's context.xml would fork me from the > community. > > The only reason I'm trying to accomplish this, is because I have > two versions of the application running in two different Tomcats; > one is the community version, one is my institution's > localized/modifyied version. I need to be able to run both > simultaneously for comparison purposes. > > However, because both Tomcats/applications are using the same > JSESSIONID as the cookie name, if I start a session on one Tomcat, > it invalidates the session on the other. > > Anything else you can think of? Do you perhaps know how/where > Tomcat is loading up the $catalina_home/conf/context.xml file? If > that is known, I can perhaps modify (hack) it to point explicitly > to the context.xml file that I have the sessionCookieName set. Sorry for the delayed response. I just wanted you to try to configure using META-INF/context.xml to see if that made the difference. That test will determine whether this is a bug in Tomcat (the feature doesn't work) or if Tomcat does not allow certain things to be overridden locally (e.g. the cookie name) and therefore this is an enhancement. I rather think that your expectations are reasonable, so assuming it's not a bug, I'm +1 for supporting site-wide cookie-name changes. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVQUq/AAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYYroP/Ao8Vdb2eL5ExJruAZdS/xKt dzd2pVn4UTFXc1Pl8j7ShmlnBgm9VK6ls8NyGQTtshsNjO0/NaYof6mrBgiwZdAU cnZci10Oz1er3qLHY5kBC1gnWajba3pg37hMPYWvwLTNvypnPwpCotBAnzHRbDDO rU+MoGwxyi54YgAF26ewC2WUd9dy8kbLZdBis3PfE+bVNt8Ao/iA+8u9vjFzOfRv nYaY0HxnV8VbiE54kLTdmbBQtfA3YpTyzxNZCEb5XP0AZvhQazqUQSmw773UBW2c p9ovKirJ1axahdMfqYQ12HWE7ajeiONU9Q3PatVjC5fy+/uNMiGKm77cq9gr6MGG JDe+PTcNNpsKVwyz+h5RzjnJALrW1GuUaxMb5NhgRMEHK6Vgo37lmkN2Db4f494Q WkFkdjV03+ylQ88M8M+s+ubDKNVmZ0WalJsQrhePa9Q3LjTD8W71jSe5IMJT2MwP 8SEP4o4MPORaH9BlJJVYHBVYHgfuFnhXV2zqaOKph1fTvuczKjuL9LXmOlpalNsv N0FPo/1X4NkMGf2tNAO1UzF5xc/FMSllH6wuFKC3cmTHvxaqwUdcZeV0vWxbIo1c HLwhCxCPaYDuA5xgIS3JCr1HXlXY1bAQHsCWCFwbcc1C73me5qAsF0UliEC9h5mZ Sh0kPbkRrI0bJA6Kcm0v =jK03 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
