Posts Tagged ‘tomcat’

10 Nov

How to get a thread-dump from Tomcat or JBoss

Posted by Freddy in Server Software. Tagged: , , .

Getting a thread-dump is one of the first steps in troubleshooting a misbehaving Java application. There are a few good ways todo this task but the easiest of them all is

kill -3 <PID>

This will send the thread-dump to your stdout logs.

2 Sep

Running Tomcat as a service on Linux

Posted by Freddy in Server Software. Tagged: , .

Running Tomcat as a service is as easy as getting jsvc to run and it’s all documented in … hmmm well anyways this is how I do it…

Compiling JSVC

[root ~]# cd $TOMCAT_HOME/bin && tar -zxf jsvc.tar.gz
[root ~]# cd jsvc-src && chmod +x configure
[root ~]# ./configure
[root ~]# make

Now there whould be a file called jsvc in $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/jsvc-src/native/ please move this file to $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/jsvc this is the Java service executable that will execute your Tomcat server. The next step is to setup your init file, lets create the file /etc/init.d/tomcat that will be used to start Tomcat with jsvc.

#!/bin/sh
##############################################################
# chkconfig: 345 98 98
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: Tomcat
# Required-Start: $local_fs $network $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $network $remote_fs
# Default-Start:  3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: start and stop Tomcat
# Description: Tomcat is a J2EE Application server
### END INIT INFO

CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat
DAEMON_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat
TOMCAT_USER=tomcat

# Make sure we load the setenv.sh file 
# since we don't use the startup.sh script
. $CATALINA_HOME/bin/setenv.sh

# for multi instances adapt these lines.
TMP_DIR=/var/tmp
PID_FILE=/var/run/jsvc.pid
CATALINA_BASE=/usr/local/tomcat

CLASSPATH=\
$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:\
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-daemon.jar:\
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar

case "$1" in
  start)
    #
    # Start Tomcat
    #
    #-user $TOMCAT_USER \
    echo $"Starting Tomcat..."
    cd $CATALINA_HOME && \
    $DAEMON_HOME/bin/jsvc \
    -home $JAVA_HOME \
    -Dcatalina.home=$CATALINA_HOME \
    -Dcatalina.base=$CATALINA_BASE \
    -Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMP_DIR \
    -wait 10 \
    -pidfile $PID_FILE \
    -outfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out \
    -errfile '&1' \
    $CATALINA_OPTS \
    -cp $CLASSPATH \
    org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
    #
    # To get a verbose JVM
    #-verbose \
    # To get a debug of jsvc.
    #-debug \
    exit $?
  ;;

  stop)
  #
  # Stop Tomcat
  #
  echo $"Stoping Tomcat..."
    $DAEMON_HOME/bin/jsvc \
    -stop \
    -pidfile $PID_FILE \
    org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
    exit $?
  ;;

  restart)
    $0 stop
    $0 start
    exit $?
  ;;

  *)
    echo "Usage: tomcat {start|stop}"
    exit 1;;
esac

Now you can start tomcat using /etc/init.d/tomcat start. You will see TWO java processes running on your computer when Tomcat is started in this way. There is one control process and then there is the wrapper for your java process (Tomcat).

24 Aug

Installing Tomcat 6.0.x (5.5.x) on Windows 2008 with IIS7

Posted by Freddy in Server Software. Tagged: , , .

Download Tomcat binaries for Windows x64

Install Tomcat (Catalina)

  • Run normal 32 bit Tomcat install but install as if it were a 64 bit install. Install to “C:\Tomcat”. Make sure to point Tomcat to a 64 bit JRE.
  • If you chose to install “Tomcat Native” in the above step, replace tomcat native dll’s (found in tomcat’s bin directory) with 64 bit versions
  • Replace tomcat6.exe and tomcat6w.exe (found in tomcat’s bin directory) with 64 bit versions
  • Unblock the exe’s (Properties -> Unblock)
  • Allow tomcat6w.exe to run as Administrator

Configure Tomcat (Catalina)

I recommend using the default 8080 and 8009 first if you are planning on none-default port install. When you have 8080 (telent) and 8009 (IIS7) working you can change the ports.

Configure IIS 7

  • Open IIS 7 Manager
  • Navigate to your host.
  • Double click on the ISAPI and CGI Restrictions icon
  • On the right hand panel, click Add…
  • Point the path to your isapi_redirect.dll file and give it a description eg. tomcat
  • Check “Allow extension path to execute”
  • Now, click on the Default Website and navigate to ISAPI Filters.
  • On the right hand panel, click on Add… and point to your isapi_redirect.dll file, give the filter a name (eg. tomcat)
  • Navigate to your Default Website again
  • Add a virtual directory and name it catalina, point this to the directory containing isapi_redirect.dll
  • Click on the newly created virtual directory catalina
  • Navigate into Handler Mappings, on the right hand side you will see a panel called Actions. Click on Edit Feature Permissions and tick the execute permission.
  • Finally, navigate to your host context again and do a restart.

Thanks to http://jspors.blogspot.com/

14 Jul

How to enable verbose GC in tomcat

Posted by Freddy in Server Software. Tagged: , .

The Problem

Where do I put the “Enable verbose GC” setting in Tomcat? Is there a switch or something?

The Fix

The file that you should use to enable verbose gc for Tomcat ( Or for the JVM that Tomcat is running in ) is $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/setenv.sh/.bat. This file might not exist in your install so when you create the file it will be loaded from the $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/catalina.sh/.bat script. Here is the snip from around line 110 in catalina.sh

if [ -r "$CATALINA_BASE"/bin/setenv.sh ]; then
 . "$CATALINA_BASE"/bin/setenv.sh
elif [ -r "$CATALINA_HOME"/bin/setenv.sh ]; then
 . "$CATALINA_HOME"/bin/setenv.sh
fi

Here is an example setenv.sh file with verbose gc enabled, look at the bold part:

JAVA_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx512m \
  -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -verbose:gc -Xloggc:/tmp/gc.log"

CATALINA_OPTS="-Dappserver.home=$CATALINA_HOME \
 -Djava.library.path=/usr/local/apr/lib \
 -Djava.awt.headless=true \
 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote \
 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=8050 \
 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false \
 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false"

export JAVA_OPTS CATALINA_OPTS

Now restart tomcat and you are done!

29 Jun

Using JSVC with Tomcat on a 64-bits machine with a 32-bits JVM.

Posted by Freddy in Code, Server Software. Tagged: , , .

The Problem

After a good amount of research and issues that  looked like memory leaks I’m moving my jvms to 32-bits JVMs for the servers that do not need a heap larger than 2GB. This was ok and a fast switch of the /usr/local/java symlink, BUT it was not as easy with JSVC that I use to run Tomcat under the user tomcat. The problem is that when I compile jsvc on a 64-bits machine it will auto-magically find the box as x86_64 and then expect that your jvm is also 64 bits.

The Fix

What I found that needs to be done is to force the compiler to use 32bit flags, so first lets run the configure string

[root ~]# cd /usr/local/tomcat/bin && tar -zxf jsvc.tar.gz
[root ~]# cd jsvc-src && chmod +x configure
[root ~]# CFLAGS=-m32 CPPFLAGS=-m32 CCASFLAGS=-m32 LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib -L/lib" ./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu

now the next step is to run make

[root ~]# make

What you will now see is that the last step of the make will fail horribly with the following error:

gcc -L/usr/lib -L/lib -ldl -lpthread jsvc-unix.o libservice.a -o ../jsvc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libdl.so when searching for -ldl
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libdl.a when searching for -ldl
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libpthread.so when searching for -lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libpthread.a when searching for -lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.so when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.a when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: warning: i386 architecture of input file `jsvc-unix.o' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
/usr/bin/ld: warning: i386 architecture of input file `libservice.a(arguments.o)' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
/usr/bin/ld: warning: i386 architecture of input file `libservice.a(debug.o)' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
/usr/bin/ld: warning: i386 architecture of input file `libservice.a(help.o)' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
/usr/bin/ld: warning: i386 architecture of input file `libservice.a(home.o)' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
/usr/bin/ld: warning: i386 architecture of input file `libservice.a(java.o)' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
/usr/bin/ld: warning: i386 architecture of input file `libservice.a(location.o)' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
/usr/bin/ld: warning: i386 architecture of input file `libservice.a(replace.o)' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
/usr/bin/ld: warning: i386 architecture of input file `libservice.a(dso-dlfcn.o)' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/tomcat/bin/jsvc-src/native'

Looks like the last gcc left out the -m32 and therefor fails.. Lets do the last task manually

[root ~]# cd native && gcc -m32 -L/usr/local/java/lib -L/usr/lib -L/lib -ldl -lpthread jsvc-unix.o libservice.a -o ../jsvc && cd ..

now if you do the following you should have a correctly compiled 32-bits jsvc executable that points to your 32 bits jvm

[root ~]# file jsvc
jsvc: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not stripped

Nice!

Resources

http://www.mail-archive.com/users@tomcat.apache.org/msg36176.html

29 Apr

Rotation Catalina.out in Tomcat 5/6

Posted by Freddy in Server Software. Tagged: . 




By using swallowOutput="true" and configuring a default context we will send all logging to the default log that we have timestamp rolling enabled for. 


 


Engine




Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"               prefix="catalina_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"




Host















Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" directory="logs" prefix="localhost_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true" DefaultContext reloadable="false" crossContext="true" swallowOutput="true"