Tomcat

Tomcat6 / Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Alter listening port

#> vim /etc/tomcat/server.xml
[...]
   <Connector port="8088" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
              connectionTimeout="20000" 
              URIEncoding="UTF-8"
              redirectPort="8443" />
[...]

Add administrative user

#> vim /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml
[...]

<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<role rolename="manager-script"/>
<role rolename="manager"/>
<role rolename="admin-gui"/>
<role rolename="admin-script"/>
<role rolename="admin"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="123-qwe" roles="manager-gui,admin-gui,manager,admin,manager-script,admin-script"/>

</tomcat-users>
[...]

Administration interface

When running on prot 8088 (! standard is 8080) e.g.:

http://localhost:8088/manager/html

Log4j

1. Put log4j-xx.jar to /var/lib/tomcat6/common/classes
2. Put log4j.properties in /var/lib/tomcat6/common/lib

See Grails