Category: Tomcat
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Tomcat 7 on Windows is not UTF-8 by default
When building web applications one typically uses UTF-8 encoding thoughout to ensure that you can send and receive text in multi-byte languages such as Russian, and Chinese. The Window 7 version of Tomcat is (insanely) not UTF-8 by default. This is because it picks up the default encoding from your installation of Java which is…
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Skype stops Tomcat 7 working on port 80
I recently reinstalled my Rialo application server on a Windows 7 Home Premium PC. I changed the port in server.xml from 8080 to 80 but Tomcat no longer would serve pages. After about an hour I found a forum post that blamed Skype. Sure enough I stopped Skype and Tomcat now runs. c:\ netstat -abn…
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ant install, deploy does not work after upgrading from Tomcat 6 to Tomcat 7
There are several issues the manager URL has changed the default tomcat-users does not give the necessary permissions ant needs access to additional jars the task syntax is less forgiving (to me anyway) All this and more in this great post. http://paulgrenyer.blogspot.co.at/2011/11/catalina-ant-for-tomcat-7.html
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Install Railo in Tomcat – where do I put my files?
This is repost of my contribution to the Railo Google Group. Goal You are a Railo and Tomcat newbie and you want a directory to put your coldfusion files in. “tomcat\myapp\ROOT” would do nicely Preconditions (for me anyway) 64 bit Windows 7 home premium UAC turned off and stays off Java installed and JAVA_HOME set…
Dr James Bayley 