Apache vs Tomcat configuration question - java

I was searching in Google and found that Apache can be configured via mod_access directives in the httpd.conf file to block a web site from a particular IP.
Is there anything equivalent in Tomcat?
I am not sure I understand what are the corresponding configuration files.
Thanks

Try the Remote Address Filter. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/valve.html

See the Request filters section of this doc. Doing this via tomcat configuration is pretty static, you need to restart to edit configuration. If you need something dynamic, it's probably best to implement a custom servlet filter.

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How to apply filter to the request to resource which are directly under webapps

I want to apply filter in below URL's.
http://10.78.97.29/robots.txt
http://10.78.97.29/sitemap.xml
https://10.78.97.29/
Since they does not contain any specific URL pattern , I am not getting any idea. And in which web.xml I have to add that filter mapping. I am using Tomcat as a webcontainer.
Thanks in advance.
Tomcat by default uses the web application named ROOT to serve the application at the root folder of the server. You can either handle the requests there or just have the files contained in the web application.
You might want to read about tomcat naming for more details, explaining this behaviour.
Alternatively, you can also have an Apache httpd in front of your tomcat and handle those files there.

Spring security: using relative path

I have an application with name test.war.
Because of Apache installed on my server I have to use another port number for Tomcat applications so after deployment this application available at domain.com:8080/test/.
I decided to create a subdomain in order to remove that ugly 8080 from url, so I setted up the server like described here. So now test.domain.com reffers to domain.com:8080/test/.
Everything seems fine except of one problem - because my application is not ROOT.war and I am using spring:url function every url in the application is translated to /test/bla-bla. So I removed that function. But still have a problem with spring security because it still translates an urls relative to app name i.e. /test/bla-bla.
How can I solve that problem?
Thank you
UPD: I don't want to deploy it as a ROOT application because I have two or three such applications and I wanted to create a subdomain for each one of them
Spring Security doesn't "translate" URLs. In fact this isn't specific to Spring Security. You'll run into similar issues with any application which does redirects. If you want to hide the context paths of applications which are behind a proxy, then you need to rewrite the URLs at the proxy.
I'd recommend you read the Tomcat Generic Proxy Howto and the section on URL rewriting in particular, as it specifically addresses this issue.

Analog of PHP .htaccess for JSP/Glassfish

How is it possible to restrict files(PDF) access in JSP/Glassfish so they can be opened only from a source code not with a straight url. For PHP projects I used .htaccess.
Anything under the webapp's WEB-INF directory cannot be accessed via direct URL, but application code can access it. This is a good place to put internal resources, config, JSPs, etc.
Wow,
.htaccess is an Apache HTTPD feature. As far as I know there isn't anything comparable in GlassFish. What you could do is: Write a Servlet or Servlet Filter which takes care of this and/or map the *.pdf extension in web.xml to it..
Thanks,
M

Map different url to same web application in Tomcat

I am not clear on the following:
If we have a web application named: SomeWebApp under Tomcat's webapp directory, the url to access it is:
http://localhost:8080/SomeWebApp
My question is, is it possible to configure Tomcat so that other URLs would point to that web application?
E.g.
http://localhost:8080/ADifferentApp will also point to the SomeWebApp?
From the web.xml I think is not possible since it is about the url patterns when you are inside the SomeWebApp scope.
So what is the proper way to do it? If it is possible that is.
The approach I found to work best is to install Apache2 on the server and proxy all requests. Tomcat is surprisingly difficult to configure in other ways than intended. In my experience, Tomcat doesn't provide this functionality declaratively.
I'd rather recommend Nginx than Apache as proxy. I'm recently working on a project that incorporates tomcat and nginx works as proxy.
Once you've got nginx you can acctualy map as many url's to access the same web application as you want.
Yes,its possible to map different context path to single application edit conf/server.xml file
> **> <Context docBase="D:\Servers\apache-tomcat-7\webapps\SomeWebApp"
> > path="/SomeWebApp" />
> > <Context docBase="D:\Servers\apache-tomcat-7\webapps\SomeWebApp" path="/ADifferentApp "/>**
Access application with 2 URL's

felix exthttpservice set session path for cookies

I have a webapplication that I am running in Felix osgi container. I am using jetty as the implementation for the extHttpService. Currently it is writing the cookies to the '/' root path. I would like to change this as it is causing conflicts with other web applications. Looking at jetty documentation it appears I need to set the following property.
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionPath
However, I am unable to find a way to set this using the ExtHttpService via osgi. I have tried creating a jetty.xml file, adding this to the config.properties, and setting it as a property in the call to register my servlet.
Does anyone know how to set this?
thanks,
I actually ended up patching the source for my current implementation, but on the mailing lists here, a patch has been submitted that should allow this to be configurable.

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