HOWTO: Disable HTTP Methods in Tomcat Introduction

In the Apache web server, if you want to disable access to specific methods, you can take advantage of mod_rewrite and disable just about anything, often with only one or two lines of configuration file entries. In Apache Tomcat, security is enforced by way of security constraints that […]

#Startup script for Tomcat JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_43 export JAVA_HOME start_tomcat=/opt/tomcat6/bin/startup.sh stop_tomcat=/opt/tomcat6/bin/shutdown.sh

start() { echo -n “Starting tomcat:” su -c ${start_tomcat} – tomcat echo “done.” } stop() { echo -n “Shutting down tomcat: “ ${stop_tomcat} echo “done.” }

# See how we were called case “$1” in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart) stop sleep 10 start […]

Convert the Key to a PKCS12 Key. This will prompt you for a password which you will need when you change the Tomcat configuration.

openssl pkcs12 -export -in /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/somedomain.com.crt -out somedomain.com.pkcs12 -name “somedomain.com” -inkey /etc/apache2/ssl.key/somedomain.com.com.key

Verify that the pkcs12 file contains your key. You should be able to see your certificate’s common name, and various […]

tuning rules Doesn’t compensate for bad, slow or poorly written applications If you allocate memory more than 3g, preferably divided into multiple tomcat young generation can not be set too much, minor gc will stop the world.

Three factors negatively impact Tomcat’s performance more than any others – network delays, remote client latency, and […]

Apache tomcat will support gzip compression. The advantage of compression is the output response will be compressed 6 to 10 times.

To enable gzip compression you need to add some additional properties in $APACHE_TOMCAT_HOME_HOME/conf/server.xml file.

Open conf/server.xml from your tomcat home directory with any text editor.

Search for “Connector port=”8080?”, line at this content will […]