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Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials

You're reading from  Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516624
Pages 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Tanuj Khare Tanuj Khare
Profile icon Tanuj Khare

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
1. Preface
1. Installation of Tomcat 7 2. Configuration and Deployment 3. Performance Tuning 4. Integration of Tomcat with the Apache Web Server 5. Securing Tomcat 7 6. Logging in Tomcat 7 7. Troubleshooting in Tomcat 8. Monitoring and Management of Tomcat 7 9. Clustering in Tomcat 7 10. Tomcat Upgrade 11. Advanced Configuration for Apache Tomcat 7

Tomcat security permissions


Apache Tomcat comes with good security-enabled options, but every environment has its own requirement for security, based on the usage of the application. For example, banking sites require a high level of security, on the other hand, user-based applications require little security.

In Tomcat 7, the default permission is configured in TOMCAT_HOME/Conf directory. The security is a collective effort of four files which make the system. Let's discuss about each file and their functionality.

catalina.properties

This file contains information related to the access of the package, package definition, common loader, shared loader, and a list of JAR files, which are not necessary to be scanned at the startup of Tomcat. It helps in improving the performance, as adding too many JAR files to the skip list improves memory consumption. If you want to add any common JAR, you have to define it under catalina.properties.

In a production environment, some of the library JARs are...

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