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Knowledge Base : Introduction to Apache Tomcat 7.0

posted by SpringSource on August 25, 2010 10:31 AM

Overview of key new features and standards supported in Tomcat 7.0, by the Tomcat 7 release manager Mark Thomas.

Apache Tomcat 7.0 is the latest release from the Apache Software Foundation. Currently considered a beta release, the new software is currently available for download and preview.

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Developers, Operations | jdbc-pool, jsp, Mark Thomas

Knowledge Base : Rotating catalina.out log files

posted by SpringSource on June 28, 2010 09:58 AM

It is possible to rotate the catalina.out log, by using a log rotation program like rotatelogs or cronolog.

It is possible to rotate the catalina.out log, but it is not controlled by the standard logging.properties or log4j.properties files.

The catalina.out log is stderr and stdout piped to a file. If you want to rotate this log file you will need to use a log rotation program like rotatelogs or cronolog. Then just pipe to the log rotation program rather than the file.

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Operations | Tomcat Logging

Knowledge Base : Can AMS manage ASF Tomcat the same way it can tc Server?

posted by SpringSource on June 3, 2010 01:08 PM

If you have existing ASF Tomcat servers running on the same machine as tc Server, you will not be able to configure AMS to manage the application deployment, nor server configuration.  AMS cannot manage ASF Tomcat to the same degree as it can for tc Server.

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Knowledge Base : WAR Files Not Completely Extracted on Deployment on Windows

posted by SpringSource on May 26, 2010 07:15 AM

File locking in Windows may prevent the directory from being deleted.

File locking on Windows is different than file locking on Unix in that on Windows a file can be locked on read. If you are redeploying a second version of an already deployed web application, you may see something like the following web application:

 webapps
- myapp.war
- myapp

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Operations | antiJARLocking, antiResourceLocking, deployment

Knowledge Base : Setting up mod_proxy_balancer

posted by SpringSource on May 25, 2010 03:54 PM

Setting up Apache Web Server and Tomcat Application Server for load balancing using mod_proxy_balancer.

This example uses mod_proxy_balancer as the load balancer. This configuration is useful for applications that are stateless and therefore do not require clustering or sticky-sessions. For more information, you can also check the page:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy_balancer.html

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Operations | apache, load balancing, mod_proxy_balancer