Understanding Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat is the world’s most widely used web application server, with over 1 million downloads per month and over 70% penetration in the enterprise datacenter. Tomcat has grown in popularity with application developers due to its lightweight simplicity, providing a powerful application platform with none of the cost or complexity of legacy J2EE platforms.
Here are a few resources for developers and administrators who are thinking of using Tomcat, or are currently using Tomcat and have questions about how-to's and best practices.
Tomcat Top FAQs
- Tomcat is running but my web browser says it can't connect
- How do I deploy my web application in Tomcat?
- How can I use Tomcat with Apache httpd?
- Configure Tomcat to always require HTTPS for my applications
- Tomcat does not start
- How can I restrict access to my web application in Tomcat?
- Tomcat: mod_jk isnt working. How can I fix it?
- The Tomcat manager webapp asks me to log in. What are the default username and password for the Tomcat manager?
- Tomcat doesn’t pick up <Context> or <Host> configuration changes to my webapp, even after I restart
- How can I enable secure HTTP (HTTPS) in Tomcat?
- Make Tomcat log the client's IP address when using mod_proxy
More Tomcat Resources
- Configuring Tomcat — a chapter excerpt from O'Reilly Media's Tomcat: the Definitive Guide, by MuleSoft architect Jason Brittain
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Migrating from Oracle WebLogic Server Apache Tomcat — a whitepaper that explores the reasons for migrating from WebLogic to Tomcat, considerations for making the decision, and techniques to be followed for a successful migration
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Tomcat Survey 2009 - research in collaboration with Computerworld - a Computerworld survey of IT and business leaders on the topic of application servers. The goal of the survey was to understand Apache Tomcat’s position in the production application server market.
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