Learning Apache Tomcat

Learning Apache Tomcat

English | MP4 | AVC 1280×720 | AAC 48KHz 2ch | 1h 10m | 157 MB

Get up and running with Apache Tomcat, the popular web application server for running Java-based apps. In this course, instructor Josh Samuelson highlights the tool’s major components and shows how to set up Tomcat and use it to install web applications. Along the way, Josh digs into some more advanced concepts, including how web servers handle encryption and how to encrypt web traffic with Tomcat. Plus, he shows how to deploy a web app using Tomcat Manager, the web-based UI for managing a Tomcat instance.

Topics include:

  • What is Tomcat?
  • Java servlets
  • Creating your first Tomcat application
  • Configuration settings for Tomcat logs
  • Reading Tomcat logs
  • Encrypting web traffic with Tomcat
  • Deploying a web app using Tomcat Manager
Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Apache Tomcat application server
2 What you should know

Tomcat Basics
3 What is Tomcat
4 Java overview
5 Learning environment
6 Installing Java
7 Installing Tomcat

Servlets
8 Servlet overview
9 Understanding XML
10 Tomcat config files overview
11 More config files
12 Your first Tomcat application
13 Challenge – Set up an open source Tomcat application
14 Solution – Jenkins in Tomcat

Logging
15 Configuration options for Tomcat logs
16 Reading Tomcat logs
17 Challenge – Finding a bug using Tomcat logs
18 Solution – Finding a bug using Tomcat logs

Advanced Tomcat Concepts
19 Introduction to web encryption
20 Set up web encryption
21 Tomcat manager setup
22 Tour of Tomcat manager
23 Deploy with Tomcat manager

Conclusion
24 Next steps