Tag Archives: Tomcat

How to create an MD5 password in java or Tomcat

Posted on 2009/05/31 by Balazs

To create an MD5 password at the prompt, assuming you have tomcat installed in /usr/local/tomcat, type $ export TOMCAT=”/usr/local/tomcat” $ java -cp “$TOMCAT/server/lib/catalina.jar:/usr/share/java/jmxri.jar:$TOMCAT/bin/commons-logging-api.jar” \ org.apache.catalina.realm.RealmBase -a md5 [secret] by replacing “[secret]” with the password. Some systems have a working digest.sh … Continue reading →

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How to load/reload/unload apps while Tomcat is running

Posted on 2009/05/04 by Balazs

To manage web applications with Tomcat, you can use the Tomcat manager application that comes with Tomcat. These simple steps show how it is done: Make sure that there is a user with manager role set up in the …/tomcat4/conf/tomcat-users.xml file. The … Continue reading →

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