Tomcat configuration summary

Tomcat is one of the more involving servers to setup. It contains a rather large server.xml file that can be daunting at first. If you “break down” the massive xml file into containers however, it becomes a lot more understandable. Below is a diagram I drew up during my studies: For a better (printable) view: … Continue reading Tomcat configuration summary

Using Apache's mod_rewrite to redirect URLs

When installing, wordpress by default deflates the blog contents into the "/blog" subdirectory of the webserver root. For example, if your website root is /var/www then wordpress will generate all its content into /var/ww/blog. Now, lets say you have a DNS account, such as my ddilittleitaly.dyndns.org, then in order to reach the subdirectory, visitors to … Continue reading Using Apache's mod_rewrite to redirect URLs