tomcat8

Tomcat 8 Maven Plugin for Java 8

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Yes you can, In your pom.xml, add the tomcat plugin. (You can use this for both Tomcat 7 and 8): pom.xml <!– Tomcat plugin –> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId> <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.2</version> <configuration> <url>http:// localhost:8080/manager/text</url> <server>TomcatServer</server> *(From maven > settings.xml)* <username>*yourtomcatusername*</username> <password>*yourtomcatpassword*</password> </configuration> </plugin> tomcat-users.xml <tomcat-users> <role rolename=”manager-gui”/> <role rolename=”manager-script”/> <user username=”admin” password=”password” roles=”manager-gui,manager-script” /> </tomcat-users> settings.xml (maven … Read more

Tomcat 8 throwing – org.apache.catalina.webresources.Cache.getResource Unable to add the resource

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I had the same issue when upgrading from Tomcat 7 to 8: a continuous large flood of log warnings about cache. 1. Short Answer Add this within the Context xml element of your $CATALINA_BASE/conf/context.xml: <!– The default value is 10240 kbytes, even when not added to context.xml. So increase it high enough, until the problem … Read more

Getting NoSuchMethodError:javax.servlet.ServletContext.getVirtualServerName()

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Check all your Maven (or equivalent) dependencies and make sure that you – or most likely another dependency – are not pulling in a pre-3.1 version of the javax.servlet / servlet-api that may be taking precedence over what’s in your Tomcat 8. If you’ve manually deployed, make sure you haven’t manually copied any servlet-api JARs … Read more

Tomcat 8 is not able to handle get request with ‘|’ in query parameters?

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This behavior is introduced in all major Tomcat releases: Tomcat 7.0.73, 8.0.39, 8.5.7 To fix, do one of the following: set relaxedQueryChars to allow this character (recommended, see Lincoln’s answer) set requestTargetAllow option (deprecated in Tomcat 8.5) (see Jérémie’s answer). you can downgrade to one of older versions (not recommended – security) Based on changelog, … Read more

The method getDispatcherType() is undefined for the type HttpServletRequest

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You’re not supposed to provide Servlet API along with the web application archive if the target runtime already provides the API out the box. Tomcat as being a JSP/Servletcontainer already provides JSP, Servlet and EL APIs out the box. When you provide them along with your webapp anyway, then you may run into classloading conflicts … Read more