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+====== Configuring and setting up Tomcat ======
+===== Intro =====
+===== Conventions used in this document =====
+CATALINA_HOME refers to the path of your Tomcat installation. In Unix, you should
+refer it as $CATALINA_HOME, while in Windows it will be referred as %CATALINA_HOME%.
+===== Security =====
+==== Disable AJP if you aren't going to use through apache ====
+AJP it's a protocol to connect Apache with a Java Application Server, like Tomcat.
+If you don't plan to use Apache in front of Tomcat, disable AJP. Open the CATALINA_HOmE/conf/server.xml file and
+disable this line:
+<code xml>
+    <!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 -->
+    <!-- Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" / -->
+</code>
+==== Disable autodeploy if you are going to use Tomcat in a production environment ====
+Autodeploy means that every web application created under CATALINA_HOME/webapps
+is automatically deployed; every JSP compiled, etc. This is not necessary for
+production sites for two reasons: 1) it burdens the load of Tomcat checking every X seconds
+if new content has dropped and 2) it could be potentially dangerous if a hacker can
+put new content into this directory.
+To disable it, open CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml and locate
+this:
+<code xml>
+      <Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
+            unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
+</code>
+and put a false in the attributes ''unpackWARs'' and ''autoDeploy'':
+<code xml>
+      <Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
+            unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="false">
+</code>
+~~DISQUS~~