#server.xml

[programming-jakub-blog]

WebSphere Liberty Startup Timeout

I've been searching for this for a while, and finally stumbled upon it by accident. It's a property of the Application Manager in server.xml. You can set it like this:

<applicationManager startTimeout="90s"/>

or, more likely:

<applicationManager autoExpand="true" startTimeout="90s"/>

[unsuperfluous]

Apache Tomcat SSL

Recently for the first time I was able to easily get Tomcat up and running on SSL without feeling the need to rip my hair out. I was able to copy a config from a co-worker. I'm not sure why hours of Googling wasn't able to give me an easy answer. Here's the easy answer!

Comment out the standard http connectors (usually 8080)

<!--     <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"                connectionTimeout="20000"                redirectPort="8443" /> -->

Your SSL connector should look like this:

    <Connector       port="9443" minSpareThreads="5" maxSpareThreads="75"       enableLookups="true" disableUploadTimeout="true"       acceptCount="100"  maxThreads="200"       scheme="https" secure="true" SSLEnabled="true"       SSLCertificateFile="/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem"       SSLCertificateKeyFile="/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key"       clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" />

Of course you'll want to customize this but the beauty is, if you are used to dealing with standard Apache type certs, this is plug and play.

Edit: This is my second instance on one host which is why I chose 9443 instead of 8443. If you have other connectors you may have to modify their redirectPort setting.

[jvmhost]

Put your application files directly in ~/appservers/apache-tomcat/webapps/ROOT directory or create default context in server.xml and set it like shown below. Optionally you can map additional or all requests to your tomcat using our custom JVM control panel - JVMCP. Also you may want to make sure that you have welcome-file-list populated in your application's WEB-INF/web.xml...