tomcat

How to change the ROOT application?

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There are three methods: First shutdown your Tomcat from the its bin directory (sh shutdown.sh). Then delete all the content of your Tomcat webapps folder (rm -fr *). Then rename your WAR file to ROOT.war, and finally start your Tomcat from the bin directory (sh startup.sh). Leave your war file in $CATALINA_BASE/webapps under its original … Read more

Simplest way to serve static data from outside the application server in a Java web application

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I’ve seen some suggestions like having the image directory being a symbolic link pointing to a directory outside the web container, but will this approach work both on Windows and *nix environments? If you adhere the *nix filesystem path rules (i.e. you use exclusively forward slashes as in /path/to/files), then it will work on Windows … Read more

IntelliJ and Tomcat.. Howto..?

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NOTE: Community Edition doesn’t support JEE. First, you will need to install a local Tomcat server. It sounds like you may have already done this. Next, on the toolbar at the top of IntelliJ, click the down arrow just to the left of the Run and Debug icons. There will be an option to Edit … Read more

How to set the max size of upload file

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Also in Spring boot 1.4, you can add following lines to your application.properties to set the file size limit: spring.http.multipart.max-file-size=128KB spring.http.multipart.max-request-size=128KB for spring boot 2.x and above its spring.servlet.multipart.max-file-size=10MB spring.servlet.multipart.max-request-size=10MB Worked for me. Source: https://spring.io/guides/gs/uploading-files/ UPDATE: Somebody asked the differences between the two properties. Below are the formal definitions: MaxFileSize: The maximum size allowed for … Read more

JBoss vs Tomcat again [closed]

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First the facts, neither is better. As you already mentioned, Tomcat provides a servlet container that supports the Servlet specification (Tomcat 7 supports Servlet 3.0). JBoss AS, a ‘complete’ application server supports Java EE 6 (including Servlet 3.0) in its current version. Tomcat is fairly lightweight and in case you need certain Java EE features … Read more

Eclipse Build Path Nesting Errors

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I had the same problem even when I created a fresh project. I was creating the Java project within Eclipse, then mavenize it, then going into java build path properties removing src/ and adding src/main/java and src/test/java. When I run Maven update it used to give nested path error. Then I finally realized -because I … Read more

Deploying my application at the root in Tomcat

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You have a couple of options: Remove the out-of-the-box ROOT/ directory from tomcat and rename your war file to ROOT.war before deploying it. Deploy your war as (from your example) war_name.war and configure the context root in conf/server.xml to use your war file : <Context path=”” docBase=”war_name” debug=”0″ reloadable=”true”></Context> The first one is easier, but … Read more

Multiple contexts with the same path error running web service in Eclipse using Tomcat

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Search for the server.xml file and check your <Context> tags, probably there are multiple definitions for the same path. Remove the duplicates and it should work for you. Check out the answer here. Auto-format the xml file (control + shift + f) since the second <Context> tag may be on the same line, but outside … Read more