Questions tagged [server.xml]
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Redirect HTTP to HTTPS:PORT in Tomcat
I have a running tomcat application that already have the following redirection rule from HTTP to HTTPs:

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Tomcat 7 GZIP compression not working
I have added the following lines in tomcat's conf/server.xml file to enable gzip compression but its not working. Pages are still uncompressesd.

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Encrypt tomcat keystore password
Is there an option to encrypt keystorePass value in tomcat server.xml?
I don't want it to be a plain text

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tomcat 7: automatically redirect https requests to port 8443
On tomcat7, our web application is running through https over port 8443 and works fine except that we are unable to redirect https default port (443) to 8443 so as a consequence the ':8443' has to be included in the URL whenever we have to access…

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does maxPostSize apply to multipart/form-data file uploads
I have a webapp on a Tomcat server that allows files to be uploaded. There is a limit on the size of a file upload, and I'd like that limit to be enforced preemptively (ie, once you cross the limit, the file upload fails, rather than transferring…

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Start webapps in tomcat in a determinate order
I have 2 webapps:
WebApp 2 depends from WebApp 1
If WebApp 1 is not running, WebApp 2 fails
Can I define in tomcat that I always want that webapp 1 starts before webapp 2?

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Tomcat - How to specify properties that can be expanded in server.xml
Currently, I have in my server.xml:
I want it to become:

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Programmatically get Tomcat HTTP Connector's maxPostSize in a JSP
I am using Tomcat 6 and would like to be able to retrieve the maxPostSize (defined in the HTTP Connector in server.xml) programmatically from within a JSP so that I can know what the max file upload size is.
Is there a way to get this?

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mvn tomcat:run - how do I edit server.xml?
I want to run "mvn tomcat:run" from the command line, but how can I edit the server.xml to set maxHttpHeaderSize="65536" in the connectors? Or can I configure the connectors in the pom.xml?
Cheers
Nik

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Tomcat runs but complains about missing server.xml
I'm using ubuntu 9.10 and I installed java and tomcat using the package manager. When I went to run startup.sh, it first complains about catalina.out not being there and not being writable. I fixed that and it doesn't complain about that (why isn't…

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tomcat 7 ignoring my context.xml
I hope this is something stupid. But I've been staring at it way too long.
I am upgrading to Tomcat 7 (from 6) on Linux and it's ignoring my context.xml file. If I include the Context (datasource) in the server.xml, it work fine. But I would like to…

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Tomcat 7/8: Reuse of Environment variables in server.xml
for some projects with tomcat we externalize some configs (URLs, etc) in environment variables.
Example:
/usr/share/tomcat7/conf/other-urls.xml

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Error in Tomcat during Startup: DB name not found
While staring the Tomcat, I am getting the following error:
SEVERE: Exception looking up UserDatabase under key UserDatabase
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name UserDatabase is not bound in this Context
at…

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How to pass datasource password to websphere liberty container during runtime
I am trying to run my app in websphere liberty profile container. I want to have 1 image which can be run on diff env(dev, st, sit etc). I can use env variable to pass the values at runtime to the container. How to use those in wlp settings? Is this…

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Disallowing to show the directories in my ROOT folder
I have a JSP web application project StudentApp and I configured in my server.xml as follows
<
Host name="test.com" appBase="D:/StudentApp"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
Context path="" …

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