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Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials

By : Tanuj Khare
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Book Image

Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials

2 (1)
By: Tanuj Khare

Overview of this book

Apache Tomcat (or simply Tomcat) is an open source servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The latest major stable release, Apache Tomcat version 7 implements the Servlet 3 and JavaServer Pages 2 specifications from the Java Community Process, and includes many additional features that make it a useful platform for developing and deploying web applications and web services.Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials follows a practical approach to teach installing, configuring, and maintaining Tomcat. It helps you to understand the middle architecture for hosting multiple websites and also provides the confidence to implement middleware support. It imparts to you the capacity to resolve migration issues and also provides regular maintenance solutions. This is the first and only book to cover upgrading to Tomcat 7 from previous versions.The journey of the reader starts at the beginner level and ends at the expert level. The content is designed in such a way that it balances the theory and practical approach for understanding concepts related to handling middle ware and web issues.In this book, you will go through a three-phase life cycle. The first cycle consists of installation, configuration of Tomcat 7 on different OS, and other configurations related to JDBC, port, deployment etc. The second phase deals with the building of enterprise application setup and high availability architecture (clustering load balancing). The third and critical phase will teach you to handle critical issues, performance tuning, and best practices for various environment stacks like dev/QA/stage/production.This book gives you a wider vision of using Tomcat 7 in web technologies and the skill to optimize their performance using Apache Tomcat 7.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Apache Tomcat 7 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Virtual hosting


It's a method through which you can host multiple domain names on the same web server or on a single IP. The concept is called shared hosting, where one server is used to host multiple websites. For example, if you want to host abc.com and xyz.com, and later you want to add one more website on the same web server, that can be achieved by virtual hosting. Basically, there are two types of virtual hosting:

  • Name-based virtual hosting

  • IP-based virtual hosting

Name-based virtual hosting

It's a method through which you can host multiple domains on a single IP. It uses the concept of shared services. In practice, web hosting companies follow this approach to host multiple sites for a low cost. For example, we have multiple sites such as www.abc.com,www.xyz.com, and www.xzy.com, and we want to configure it on the single web server using a single IP, then name-based virtual hosting is used. Following are the advantages of name-based virtual hosting:

  • Putting more than one website on...