| 1 | <html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><title>Apache Tomcat Configuration Reference - The Host Container</title><meta value="Craig R. McClanahan" name="author"><meta value="craigmcc@apache.org" name="email"><meta value="Remy Maucherat" name="author"><meta value="remm@apache.org" name="email"><meta value="Yoav Shapira" name="author"><meta value="yoavs@apache.org" name="email"></head><body vlink="#525D76" alink="#525D76" link="#525D76" text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><table cellspacing="0" width="100%" border="0"><!--PAGE HEADER--><tr><td><!--PROJECT LOGO--><a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/"><img border="0" alt=" |
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| 4 | </a></small></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Introduction"><strong>Introduction</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 5 | |
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| 6 | <p>The <strong>Host</strong> element represents a <em>virtual host</em>, |
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| 7 | which is an association of a network name for a server (such as |
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| 8 | "www.mycompany.com" with the particular server on which Catalina is |
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| 9 | running. In order to be effective, this name must be registered in the |
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| 10 | <em>Domain Name Service</em> (DNS) server that manages the Internet |
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| 11 | domain you belong to - contact your Network Administrator for more |
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| 12 | information.</p> |
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| 13 | |
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| 14 | <p>In many cases, System Administrators wish to associate more than |
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| 15 | one network name (such as <code>www.mycompany.com</code> and |
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| 16 | <code>company.com</code>) with the same virtual host and applications. |
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| 17 | This can be accomplished using the <a href="#Host Name Aliases">Host |
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| 18 | Name Aliases</a> feature discussed below.</p> |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | <p>One or more <strong>Host</strong> elements are nested inside an |
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| 21 | <a href="engine.html">Engine</a> element. Inside the Host element, you |
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| 22 | can nest <a href="context.html">Context</a> elements for the web |
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| 23 | applications associated with this virtual host. Exactly one of the Hosts |
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| 24 | associated with each Engine MUST have a name matching the |
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| 25 | <code>defaultHost</code> attribute of that Engine.</p> |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | <blockquote><em> |
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| 28 | <p>The description below uses the variable name $CATALINA_BASE to refer the |
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| 29 | base directory against which most relative paths are resolved. If you have |
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| 30 | not configured Tomcat 6 for multiple instances by setting a CATALINA_BASE |
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| 31 | directory, then $CATALINA_BASE will be set to the value of $CATALINA_HOME, |
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| 32 | the directory into which you have installed Tomcat 6.</p> |
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| 33 | </em></blockquote> |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Attributes"><strong>Attributes</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Common Attributes"><strong>Common Attributes</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | <p>All implementations of <strong>Host</strong> |
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| 40 | support the following attributes:</p> |
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| 41 | |
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| 42 | <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>appBase</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> |
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| 43 | <p>The <em>Application Base</em> directory for this virtual host. |
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| 44 | This is the pathname of a directory that may contain web applications |
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| 45 | to be deployed on this virtual host. You may specify an |
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| 46 | absolute pathname for this directory, or a pathname that is relative |
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| 47 | to the <code>$CATALINA_BASE</code> directory. See |
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| 48 | <a href="#Automatic Application Deployment">Automatic Application |
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| 49 | Deployment</a> for more information on automatic recognition and |
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| 50 | deployment of web applications to be deployed automatically.</p> |
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| 51 | </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>autoDeploy</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> |
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| 52 | <p>This flag value indicates if new web applications, dropped in to |
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| 53 | the <code>appBase</code> directory while Tomcat is running, should |
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| 54 | be automatically deployed. The flag's value defaults to true. See |
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| 55 | <a href="#Automatic Application Deployment">Automatic Application |
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| 56 | Deployment</a> for more information.</p> |
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| 57 | </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>backgroundProcessorDelay</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> |
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| 58 | <p>This value represents the delay in seconds between the |
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| 59 | invocation of the backgroundProcess method on this host and |
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| 60 | its child containers, including all contexts. |
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| 61 | Child containers will not be invoked if their delay value is not |
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| 62 | negative (which would mean they are using their own processing |
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| 63 | thread). Setting this to a positive value will cause |
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| 64 | a thread to be spawn. After waiting the specified amount of time, |
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| 65 | the thread will invoke the backgroundProcess method on this host |
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| 66 | and all its child containers. A host will use background processing to |
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| 67 | perform live web application deployment related tasks. If not |
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| 68 | specified, the default value for this attribute is -1, which means |
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| 69 | the host will rely on the background processing thread of its parent |
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| 70 | engine.</p> |
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| 71 | </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>className</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> |
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| 72 | <p>Java class name of the implementation to use. This class must |
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| 73 | implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.Host</code> interface. |
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| 74 | If not specified, the standard value (defined below) will be used.</p> |
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| 75 | </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>deployOnStartup</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> |
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| 76 | <p>This flag value indicates if web applications from this host should |
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| 77 | be automatically deployed by the host configurator. |
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| 78 | The flag's value defaults to true. See |
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| 79 | <a href="#Automatic Application Deployment">Automatic Application |
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| 80 | Deployment</a> for more information.</p> |
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| 81 | </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><strong><code>name</code></strong></td><td valign="center" align="left"> |
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| 82 | <p>Network name of this virtual host, as registered in your |
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| 83 | <em>Domain Name Service</em> server. One of the Hosts nested within |
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| 84 | an <a href="engine.html">Engine</a> MUST have a name that matches the |
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| 85 | <code>defaultHost</code> setting for that Engine. See |
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| 86 | <a href="#Host Name Aliases">Host Name Aliases</a> for information |
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| 87 | on how to assign more than one network name to the same |
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| 88 | virtual host.</p> |
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| 89 | </td></tr></table> |
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| 90 | |
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| 91 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> |
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| 92 | |
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| 93 | |
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| 94 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Standard Implementation"><strong>Standard Implementation</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 95 | |
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| 96 | <p>The standard implementation of <strong>Host</strong> is |
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| 97 | <strong>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost</strong>. |
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| 98 | It supports the following additional attributes (in addition to the |
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| 99 | common attributes listed above):</p> |
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| 100 | |
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| 101 | <table cellpadding="5" border="1"><tr><th bgcolor="#023264" width="15%"><font color="#ffffff">Attribute</font></th><th bgcolor="#023264" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff">Description</font></th></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>deployXML</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> |
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| 102 | <p>Set to <code>false</code> if you want to disable parsing the context.xml |
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| 103 | file embedded inside the application (located at <code>/META-INF/context.xml</code>). |
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| 104 | Security consious environments should set this to <code>false</code> to prevent |
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| 105 | applications from interacting with the container's configuration. The |
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| 106 | administrator will then be responsible for providing an external context |
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| 107 | configuration file, and put it in |
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| 108 | <code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/</code>. |
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| 109 | The flag's value defaults to <code>true</code>.</p> |
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| 110 | </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>errorReportValveClass</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> |
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| 111 | <p>Java class name of the error reporting valve which will be used |
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| 112 | by this Host. The responsability of this valve is to output error |
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| 113 | reports. Setting this property allows to customize the look of the |
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| 114 | error pages which will be generated by Tomcat. This class must |
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| 115 | implement the |
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| 116 | <code>org.apache.catalina.Valve</code> interface. If none is specified, |
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| 117 | the value <code>org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve</code> |
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| 118 | will be used by default.</p> |
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| 119 | </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>unpackWARs</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> |
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| 120 | <p>Set to <code>true</code> if you want web applications that are |
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| 121 | placed in the <code>appBase</code> directory as web application |
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| 122 | archive (WAR) files to be unpacked into a corresponding disk directory |
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| 123 | structure, <code>false</code> to run such web applications directly |
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| 124 | from a WAR file. See |
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| 125 | <a href="#Automatic Application Deployment">Automatic Application |
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| 126 | Deployment</a> for more information.</p> |
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| 127 | </td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="left"><code>workDir</code></td><td valign="center" align="left"> |
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| 128 | <p>Pathname to a scratch directory to be used by applications for |
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| 129 | this Host. Each application will have its own sub directory with |
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| 130 | temporary read-write use. Configuring a Context workDir will override |
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| 131 | use of the Host workDir configuration. This directory will be made |
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| 132 | visible to servlets in the web application by a servlet context |
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| 133 | attribute (of type <code>java.io.File</code>) named |
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| 134 | <code>javax.servlet.context.tempdir</code> as described in the |
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| 135 | Servlet Specification. If not specified, a suitable directory |
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| 136 | underneath <code>$CATALINA_BASE/work</code> will be provided.</p> |
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| 137 | </td></tr></table> |
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| 138 | |
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| 139 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> |
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| 140 | |
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| 141 | |
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| 142 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Nested Components"><strong>Nested Components</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 143 | |
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| 144 | <p>You can nest one or more <a href="context.html">Context</a> elements |
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| 145 | inside this <strong>Host</strong> element, each representing a different web |
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| 146 | application associated with this virtual host.</p> |
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| 147 | |
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| 148 | <p>You can nest at most one instance of the following utility components |
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| 149 | by nesting a corresponding element inside your <strong>Host</strong> |
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| 150 | element:</p> |
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| 151 | <ul> |
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| 152 | <li><a href="realm.html"><strong>Realm</strong></a> - |
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| 153 | Configure a realm that will allow its |
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| 154 | database of users, and their associated roles, to be shared across all |
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| 155 | <a href="context.html">Contexts</a> nested inside this Host (unless |
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| 156 | overridden by a <a href="realm.html">Realm</a> configuration |
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| 157 | at a lower level).</li> |
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| 158 | </ul> |
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| 159 | |
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| 160 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Special Features"><strong>Special Features</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 161 | |
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| 162 | |
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| 163 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Logging"><strong>Logging</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 164 | |
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| 165 | <p>A host is associated with the |
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| 166 | <code>org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[enginename].[hostname]</code> |
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| 167 | log category. Note that the brackets are actuall part of the name, |
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| 168 | don't omit them.</p> |
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| 169 | |
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| 170 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> |
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| 171 | |
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| 172 | |
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| 173 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Access Logs"><strong>Access Logs</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 174 | |
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| 175 | <p>When you run a web server, one of the output files normally generated |
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| 176 | is an <em>access log</em>, which generates one line of information for |
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| 177 | each request processed by the server, in a standard format. Catalina |
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| 178 | includes an optional <a href="valve.html">Valve</a> implementation that |
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| 179 | can create access logs in the same standard format created by web servers, |
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| 180 | or in any number of custom formats.</p> |
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| 181 | |
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| 182 | <p>You can ask Catalina to create an access log for all requests |
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| 183 | processed by an <a href="engine.html">Engine</a>, |
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| 184 | <a href="host.html">Host</a>, or <a href="context.html">Context</a> |
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| 185 | by nesting a <a href="valve.html">Valve</a> element like this:</p> |
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| 186 | |
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| 187 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> |
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| 188 | <Host name="localhost" ...> |
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| 189 | ... |
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| 190 | <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" |
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| 191 | prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt" |
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| 192 | pattern="common"/> |
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| 193 | ... |
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| 194 | </Host> |
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| 195 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> |
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| 196 | |
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| 197 | <p>See <a href="valve.html#Access Log Valve">Access Log Valve</a> |
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| 198 | for more information on the configuration attributes that are |
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| 199 | supported.</p> |
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| 200 | |
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| 201 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> |
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| 202 | |
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| 203 | |
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| 204 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Automatic Application Deployment"><strong>Automatic Application Deployment</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 205 | |
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| 206 | <p>If you are using the standard <strong>Host</strong> implementation, |
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| 207 | the following actions take place automatically when Catalina is first |
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| 208 | started, if the <code>deployOnStartup</code> property is set to |
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| 209 | <code>true</code> (which is the default value):</p> |
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| 210 | <ul> |
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| 211 | <li>Any XML file in the |
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| 212 | <code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf/[engine_name]/[host_name]</code> directory is |
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| 213 | assumed to contain a |
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| 214 | <a href="context.html">Context</a> element (and its associated |
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| 215 | subelements) for a single web application. The <code>docBase</code> |
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| 216 | attribute of this <code><Context></code> element will typically |
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| 217 | be the absolute pathname to a web application directory, or the |
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| 218 | absolute pathname of a web application archive (WAR) file (which |
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| 219 | will not be expanded). The path attribute will be automatically set |
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| 220 | as defined in the <a href="context.html">Context</a> documentation.</li> |
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| 221 | <li>Any web application archive file within the application base (appBase) |
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| 222 | directory that does not have a corresponding |
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| 223 | directory of the same name (without the ".war" extension) will be |
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| 224 | automatically expanded, unless the <code>unpackWARs</code> property |
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| 225 | is set to <code>false</code>. If you redeploy an updated WAR file, |
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| 226 | be sure to delete the expanded directory when restarting Tomcat, so |
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| 227 | that the updated WAR file will be re-expanded (note that the auto |
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| 228 | deployer, if enabled, will automatically expand the updated WAR file |
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| 229 | once the previously expanded directory is removed).</li> |
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| 230 | <li>Any subdirectory within the <em>application base directory</em> |
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| 231 | will receive an automatically generated <a href="context.html"> |
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| 232 | Context</a> element, even if this directory is not mentioned in the |
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| 233 | <code>conf/server.xml</code> file. |
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| 234 | This generated Context entry will be configured according to the |
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| 235 | properties set in any <a href="defaultcontext.html">DefaultContext</a> |
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| 236 | element nested in this Host element. The context path for this |
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| 237 | deployed Context will be a slash character ("/") followed by the |
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| 238 | directory name, unless the directory name is ROOT, in which case |
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| 239 | the context path will be an empty string ("").</li> |
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| 240 | </ul> |
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| 241 | |
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| 242 | <p>In addition to the automatic deployment that occurs at startup time, |
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| 243 | you can also request that new XML configuration files, WAR files, or |
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| 244 | subdirectories that are dropped in to the <code>appBase</code> (or |
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| 245 | <code>$CATALINA_BASE/conf/[engine_name]/[host_name]</code> in the case of |
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| 246 | an XML configuration file) directory while Tomcat is running will be |
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| 247 | automatically deployed, according to the rules described above. The |
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| 248 | auto deployer will also track web applications for the following changes: |
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| 249 | <ul> |
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| 250 | <li>An update to the WEB-INF/web.xml file will trigger a reload of the |
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| 251 | web application</li> |
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| 252 | <li>An update to a WAR which has been expanded will trigger |
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| 253 | an undeploy (<strong>with a removal of the expanded webapp</strong>), |
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| 254 | followed by a deployment</li> |
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| 255 | <li>An update to a XML configuration file will trigger an undeploy |
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| 256 | (without the removal of any expanded directory), followed by |
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| 257 | a deployment of the associated web application</li> |
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| 258 | </ul> |
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| 259 | </p> |
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| 260 | |
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| 261 | <p>When using automatic deployment, the <code>docBase</code> defined by |
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| 262 | an XML <a href="context.html">Context</a> file should be outside of the |
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| 263 | <code>appBase</code> directory. If this is not the case difficulties |
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| 264 | may be experienced deploying the web application or the application may |
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| 265 | be deployed twice.</p> |
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| 266 | |
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| 267 | <p>Finally, note that if you are defining contexts explicitly, you should |
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| 268 | probably turn off automatic application deployment. Otherwise, your context |
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| 269 | will be deployed twice each, and that may cause problems for your app. |
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| 270 | </p> |
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| 271 | |
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| 272 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> |
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| 273 | |
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| 274 | |
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| 275 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Host Name Aliases"><strong>Host Name Aliases</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 276 | |
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| 277 | <p>In many server environments, Network Administrators have configured |
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| 278 | more than one network name (in the <em>Domain Name Service</em> (DNS) |
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| 279 | server), that resolve to the IP address of the same server. Normally, |
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| 280 | each such network name would be configured as a separate |
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| 281 | <strong>Host</strong> element in <code>conf/server.xml</code>, each |
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| 282 | with its own set of web applications.</p> |
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| 283 | |
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| 284 | <p>However, in some circumstances, it is desireable that two or more |
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| 285 | network names should resolve to the <strong>same</strong> virtual host, |
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| 286 | running the same set of applications. A common use case for this |
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| 287 | scenario is a corporate web site, where it is desireable that users |
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| 288 | be able to utilize either <code>www.mycompany.com</code> or |
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| 289 | <code>company.com</code> to access exactly the same content and |
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| 290 | applications.</p> |
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| 291 | |
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| 292 | <p>This is accomplished by utilizing one or more <strong>Alias</strong> |
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| 293 | elements nested inside your <strong>Host</strong> element. For |
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| 294 | example:</p> |
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| 295 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> |
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| 296 | <Host name="www.mycompany.com" ...> |
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| 297 | ... |
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| 298 | <Alias>mycompany.com</Alias> |
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| 299 | ... |
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| 300 | </Host> |
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| 301 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> |
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| 302 | |
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| 303 | <p>In order for this strategy to be effective, all of the network names |
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| 304 | involved must be registered in your DNS server to resolve to the |
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| 305 | same computer that is running this instance of Catalina.</p> |
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| 306 | |
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| 307 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> |
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| 308 | |
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| 309 | |
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| 310 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Lifecycle Listeners"><strong>Lifecycle Listeners</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 311 | |
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| 312 | <p>If you have implemented a Java object that needs to know when this |
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| 313 | <strong>Host</strong> is started or stopped, you can declare it by |
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| 314 | nesting a <strong>Listener</strong> element inside this element. The |
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| 315 | class name you specify must implement the |
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| 316 | <code>org.apache.catalina.LifecycleListener</code> interface, and |
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| 317 | it will be notified about the occurrence of the coresponding |
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| 318 | lifecycle events. Configuration of such a listener looks like this:</p> |
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| 319 | |
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| 320 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> |
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| 321 | <Host name="localhost" ...> |
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| 322 | ... |
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| 323 | <Listener className="com.mycompany.mypackage.MyListener" ... > |
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| 324 | ... |
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| 325 | </Host> |
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| 326 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> |
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| 327 | |
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| 328 | <p>Note that a Listener can have any number of additional properties |
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| 329 | that may be configured from this element. Attribute names are matched |
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| 330 | to corresponding JavaBean property names using the standard property |
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| 331 | method naming patterns.</p> |
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| 332 | |
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| 333 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> |
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| 334 | |
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| 335 | |
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| 336 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Request Filters"><strong>Request Filters</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 337 | |
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| 338 | <p>You can ask Catalina to check the IP address, or host name, on every |
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| 339 | incoming request directed to the surrounding |
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| 340 | <a href="engine.html">Engine</a>, <a href="host.html">Host</a>, or |
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| 341 | <a href="context.html">Context</a> element. The remote address or name |
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| 342 | will be checked against a configured list of "accept" and/or "deny" |
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| 343 | filters, which are defined using the Regular Expression syntax supported |
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| 344 | by the <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/">Jakarta Regexp</a> |
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| 345 | regular expression library. Requests that come from locations that are |
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| 346 | not accepted will be rejected with an HTTP "Forbidden" error. |
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| 347 | Example filter declarations:</p> |
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| 348 | |
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| 349 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> |
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| 350 | <Host name="localhost" ...> |
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| 351 | ... |
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| 352 | <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteHostValve" |
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| 353 | allow="*.mycompany.com,www.yourcompany.com"/> |
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| 354 | <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve" |
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| 355 | deny="192.168.1.*"/> |
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| 356 | ... |
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| 357 | </Host> |
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| 358 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> |
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| 359 | |
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| 360 | <p>See <a href="valve.html#Remote Address Filter">Remote Address Filter</a> |
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| 361 | and <a href="valve.html#Remote Host Filter">Remote Host Filter</a> for |
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| 362 | more information about the configuration options that are supported.</p> |
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| 363 | |
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| 364 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> |
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| 365 | |
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| 366 | |
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| 367 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Single Sign On"><strong>Single Sign On</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 368 | |
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| 369 | <p>In many environments, but particularly in portal environments, it |
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| 370 | is desireable to have a user challenged to authenticate themselves only |
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| 371 | once over a set of web applications deployed on a particular virtual |
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| 372 | host. This can be accomplished by nesting an element like this inside |
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| 373 | the Host element for this virtual host:</p> |
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| 374 | |
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| 375 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> |
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| 376 | <Host name="localhost" ...> |
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| 377 | ... |
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| 378 | <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn" |
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| 379 | debug="0"/> |
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| 380 | ... |
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| 381 | </Host> |
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| 382 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> |
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| 383 | |
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| 384 | <p>The Single Sign On facility operates according to the following rules: |
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| 385 | </p> |
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| 386 | <ul> |
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| 387 | <li>All web applications configured for this virtual host must share the |
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| 388 | same <a href="realm.html">Realm</a>. In practice, that means you can |
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| 389 | nest the Realm element inside this Host element (or the surrounding |
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| 390 | <a href="engine.html">Engine</a> element), but not inside a |
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| 391 | <a href="context.html">Context</a> element for one of the involved |
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| 392 | web applications.</li> |
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| 393 | <li>As long as the user accesses only unprotected resources in any of the |
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| 394 | web applications on this virtual host, they will not be challenged |
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| 395 | to authenticate themselves.</li> |
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| 396 | <li>As soon as the user accesses a protected resource in |
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| 397 | <strong>any</strong> web application associated with this virtual |
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| 398 | host, the user will be challenged to authenticate himself or herself, |
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| 399 | using the login method defined for the web application currently |
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| 400 | being accessed.</li> |
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| 401 | <li>Once authenticated, the roles associated with this user will be |
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| 402 | utilized for access control decisions across <strong>all</strong> |
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| 403 | of the associated web applications, without challenging the user |
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| 404 | to authenticate themselves to each application individually.</li> |
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| 405 | <li>As soon as the user logs out of one web application (for example, |
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| 406 | by invalidating the corresponding session if form |
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| 407 | based login is used), the user's sessions in <strong>all</strong> |
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| 408 | web applications will be invalidated. Any subsequent attempt to |
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| 409 | access a protected resource in any application will require the |
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| 410 | user to authenticate himself or herself again.</li> |
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| 411 | <li>The Single Sign On feature utilizes HTTP cookies to transmit a token |
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| 412 | that associates each request with the saved user identity, so it can |
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| 413 | only be utilized in client environments that support cookies.</li> |
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| 414 | </ul> |
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| 415 | |
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| 416 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> |
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| 417 | |
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| 418 | |
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| 419 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="User Web Applications"><strong>User Web Applications</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> |
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| 420 | |
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| 421 | <p>Many web servers can automatically map a request URI starting with |
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| 422 | a tilde character ("~") and a username to a directory (commonly named |
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| 423 | <code>public_html</code>) in that user's home directory on the server. |
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| 424 | You can accomplish the same thing in Catalina by using a special |
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| 425 | <strong>Listener</strong> element like this (on a Unix system that |
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| 426 | uses the <code>/etc/passwd</code> file to identify valid users):</p> |
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| 427 | |
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| 428 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> |
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| 429 | <Host name="localhost" ...> |
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| 430 | ... |
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| 431 | <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.startup.UserConfig" |
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| 432 | directoryName="public_html" |
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| 433 | userClass="org.apache.catalina.startup.PasswdUserDatabase"/> |
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| 434 | ... |
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| 435 | </Host> |
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| 436 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> |
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| 437 | |
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| 438 | <p>On a server where <code>/etc/passwd</code> is not in use, you can |
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| 439 | request Catalina to consider all directories found in a specified base |
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| 440 | directory (such as <code>c:\Homes</code> in this example) to be |
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| 441 | considered "user home" directories for the purposes of this directive:</p> |
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| 442 | |
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| 443 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> |
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| 444 | <Host name="localhost" ...> |
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| 445 | ... |
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| 446 | <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.startup.UserConfig" |
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| 447 | directoryName="public_html" |
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| 448 | homeBase=c:\Homes" |
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| 449 | userClass="org.apache.catalina.startup.HomesUserDatabase"/> |
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| 450 | ... |
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| 451 | </Host> |
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| 452 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> |
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| 453 | |
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| 454 | <p>If a user home directory has been set up for a user named |
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| 455 | <code>craigmcc</code>, then its contents will be visible from a |
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| 456 | client browser by making a request to a URL like:</p> |
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| 457 | |
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| 458 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> |
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| 459 | http://www.mycompany.com:8080/~craigmcc |
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| 460 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="../images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> |
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| 461 | |
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| 462 | <p>Successful use of this feature requires recognition of the following |
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| 463 | considerations:</p> |
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| 464 | <ul> |
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| 465 | <li>Each user web application will be deployed with characteristics |
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| 466 | established by any <a href="defaultcontext.html">DefaultContext</a> |
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| 467 | element you have configured for this Host.</li> |
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| 468 | <li>It is legal to include more than one instance of this Listener |
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| 469 | element. This would only be useful, however, in circumstances |
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| 470 | where you wanted to configure more than one "homeBase" directory.</li> |
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| 471 | <li>The operating system username under which Catalina is executed |
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| 472 | MUST have read access to each user's web application directory, |
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| 473 | and all of its contents.</li> |
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| 474 | </ul> |
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| 475 | |
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| 476 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> |
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| 477 | |
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| 478 | |
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| 479 | </blockquote></td></tr></table></td></tr><!--FOOTER SEPARATOR--><tr><td colspan="2"><hr size="1" noshade></td></tr><!--PAGE FOOTER--><tr><td colspan="2"><div align="center"><font size="-1" color="#525D76"><em> |
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| 480 | Copyright © 1999-2008, Apache Software Foundation |
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| 481 | </em></font></div></td></tr></table></body></html> |
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