20170530 Raspberry Pi - Developer Tools 4 - Tomcat Web Server
[HTTP SERVER] [WEB SERVER] [APACHE TOMCAT]
[RASPBERRY PI - DEVELOPER TOOLS]
Working on a software generating HTML pages makes it necessary to test these pages with a real web server.
I use Tomcat on my Raspberry Pi to test the pages on my Ipad.
You get Tomcat here, I currently use version 7.0.72 .
I have downloaded the tar.gz archive and unzipped it to /home/bin/tomcat.
I don't want to run Tomcat as a service, but I want to have it started at boot-time, so I have added this line at the end of .bashrc :
/home/pi/bin/tomcat/bin/startup.shFYI :
- My first try was to do it with a cronjob with @reboot, but that did not work. Googling showed that this seems to be a common problem and that it could take longer to find out why. I will have a look at cronjobs later.
- I have tested that starting an ssh session only starts a new webserver when it was shut down before, for now this hack is ok for me.
To access static HTML pages I have put these Context lines at the end of the host block :
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<Context docBase="/home/pi" path="pi" />
<Context docBase="/mnt/usbstickext4/pi/gitrepo/piblog/outputHTML" path="/blog" />
</Host>
</Engine>
</Service>
</Server>This enables Tomcat to serve my home on the Pi under /pi and my built blog pages under /blog
This is an example URL for /pi to read a log file located in the home folder :
http://10.0.0.51:8080/pi/pibashrc.logand this is how I access the blog on the Pi :
http://10.0.0.51:8080/blog/index.htmlSelect where to go ...
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The Blog
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My Technical Blogs
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Projects
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Blogs Of Friends
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CV/About
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