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JSP - Not able to maintain session between http page and https page

I can't seem to find the one right answer to my problem. I'm being overwhelmed with information I'm finding on the internet, and I have no idea what I should do. My setup is as follows : Apache server (front end), Tomcat 6.0 (back end), RapidSSL certificate is on the Apache server, my site is made up of Java Server Pages. The problem ...

Uncaught exceptions in Tomcat print to localhost.[date].log instead of catalina.out

I'm running tomcat 6.0.20 (with spring, if that matters) and can't seem to get stack traces from uncaught exceptions thrown from within my code to print to catalina.out. I'm trying to mimic the output that you see in the eclipse console. When I deploy a war on a production server and start tomcat, most of the output goes to catalina.ou...

Tomcat 6 appears to be creating separate contexts for subfolders

We have a web app with the following folders/files: somefolder\ view1.jsp view2.jsp We also have a servlet that is configured as follows: <servlet> <servlet-name>Servlet1</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.etc.Servlet1</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Servlet1</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/...

How do I setup Apache and Tomcat for JSP and SEO-friendly clean URLs

Hey guys, I'm looking for is a "Best Practices" approach for setting up Apache httpd (2.2) with Tomcat 6 so that we can: Allow JSP files to be served for directory listings (e.g. http:/www.example.com displays index.jsp via DirectoryIndex index.jsp). Hide the extensions of all URLs (both *.html and *.php files served by Apache and *.j...

Java code - looking for source code

I have this Java code some other person wrote, specifically JSPs. I am trying to understand where everything is. In my index.jsp (the main file which is loaded) it imports a certain namespace (I suppose tomcat does all the compiling, I don't know): <%@ page import="org.sgrp.SearchResults"%> This physical location doesn't exist in my ...

Security Service as Proxy

I've been tasked with creating a Security Proxy service. The idea is that if the backend security provider changes there is no impact on the main application. This ideally is what the backend security provider is for, but I have been tasked with creating a seperate service which will affectively be a proxy to the backend security provide...

Why does tomcat replace context.xml on redeploy?

Documentation says if you have a context file here: $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/myapp.xml it will NOT be replaced by a context file here: mywebapp.war/META-INF/context.xml It is written here: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html Only if a context file does not exist for the application in the $...

Tomcat 5.5 OutOfMemory error using Hibernate

I'm experiencing a OutOfMemory error from Tomcat. This error started ever since I added Hibernate into the application. I'm not using Spring, so I do all the open/close for Hibernate Sessions. Below are a few Hibernate configs that I'm using. I create my SessionFactory in the Java code. hibernate.current_session_context_class=thread h...

Tomcat server exception - java:comp is not bound in this Context

In doing something else, I added a jar to my lib folder called catalina.jar . This allowed me to serve static content (which works), but my previously working struts actions (which access a database through hibernate) no longer work. The first indication of failure occurs on tomcat startup: SEVERE: Null component Catalina:type=DataSourc...

Initial Tomcat 5.5 heap size

Anyone knows what is the initialTomcat5.5 heap size? ...

Tomcat 6 doesn't start my app on Ubuntu Karmic, which works flawlessly on Lucid

Hi! I am having some issues with Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu Karmic. It doesn't start the app failing with various errors. The first on is: Caused by: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.util.PropertyPermission spring.security.strategy read) at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:3...

Conflict between spring security and basic authorization of Tomcat

Hi guys! Did someone face the problem with spring security login when basic authorization is activated under Tomcat? It is simply impossible to login when the login page loaded after logout. If you refresh the page and try again, everything is fine :)(. I could not find any complain on such a behavior and spent whole day to find out...

adding crossdomain.xml to tomcat 6.0.24 to access webservices with Flex

I have to deploy a webapp on Tomcat 6.0.24, serving some webservices that should be accessed with REST-style methods (not fully REST, since the used flex class HTTPService can just send GET and POST). The webservices are deployed at http://localhost:8080/-webappname-/rest/-methodname- The problem is that the policy of flex sandbox (i ...

IntelliJ and Tomcat.. Howto..?

So, I come from Netbeans, I develop sites there, we use Tomcat as local server to manage it. In Netbeans it was pretty much "Install, write hit Run and it works" How do I pull the same thing off in IntelliJ? I really can't find a step-by-step instruction for it.. ...

split HTTP and TCP-only (non-HTTP) traffic

Hi, I have web application that runs on Tomcat (and gets HTTP requests) and some other backend standalone application that gets only TCP. For some reasons, I can use outside only port 8080. So, I need to get all TCP requests (from outside) to port 8080 and forward HTTP ones to web application on Tomcat and all TCP pure requests (that ar...

Not able to access network mapped drive from jsp running on tomcat 6.0

Hi, I want to access the network files from my web application. I have build the web application (which access network share folder and files) and its works perfectly under eclipse. The same application doesn't run if run through web server Tomcat 6.0 String lineSeparator = System.getProperty("file.separator"); String path1=li...

Tomcat - making a project folder the web root

I have this folder under Tomcat webapps/mysite which is where all my JSPs and other things are located. To access this folder I go to http://blah.com/mysite and it works just fine. However (because of stylesheets and images statically connected to the root /) I have to make it so that when I go to http://blah.com/ it will load the stuff ...

what's a authorization header? How is it used. How is it differrent from using login custom coding.

Just found that there is a request header authorization. Want to know what is the use of this header. How is it used in the context of jsp tomcat servlet enviornment. How is it different from a normal login module, where user enters username password in a simple jsp page. How a page passes authorization header. ...

Pooling PreparedStatement on Tomcat with MySQL

When using Tomcat with MySQL, what is the relationship between poolPreparedStatements setting in Tomcat DataSource configuration (I believe coming from DBCP) and Connector/J cachePrepStmts setting? What's the optimal configuration? ...

Tomcat native library benefits

Can anyone advise on the main benefits of installing the Tomcat native library? I am running a standard installation of Tomcat to serve a moderately complex intranet based web app using Ext Js on the front end so lots of javascript and AJAX over the network and VPN from various locations. Is it even worth installing this library for th...