blob: 3d5df9f4ee249ed792bc0b9d2b629eb273364f23 [file] [log] [blame]
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
-->
<!DOCTYPE document [
<!ENTITY project SYSTEM "project.xml">
]>
<document url="server.html">
&project;
<properties>
<author email="craigmcc@apache.org">Craig R. McClanahan</author>
<title>The Server Component</title>
</properties>
<body>
<section name="Introduction">
<p>A <strong>Server</strong> element represents the entire Catalina
servlet container. Therefore, it must be the single outermost element
in the <code>conf/server.xml</code> configuration file. Its attributes
represent the characteristics of the servlet container as a whole.</p>
</section>
<section name="Attributes">
<subsection name="Common Attributes">
<p>All implementations of <strong>Server</strong>
support the following attributes:</p>
<attributes>
<attribute name="className" required="false">
<p>Java class name of the implementation to use. This class must
implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.Server</code> interface.
If no class name is specified, the standard implementation will
be used.</p>
</attribute>
<attribute name="port" required="true">
<p>The TCP/IP port number on which this server waits for a shutdown
command. This connection must be initiated from the same server
computer that is running this instance of Tomcat.</p>
</attribute>
<attribute name="shutdown" required="true">
<p>The command string that must be received via a TCP/IP connection
to the specified port number, in order to shut down Tomcat.</p>
</attribute>
</attributes>
</subsection>
<subsection name="Standard Implementation">
<p>The standard implementation of <strong>Server</strong> is
<strong>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer</strong>.
It supports the following additional attributes (in addition to the
common attributes listed above):</p>
<attributes>
</attributes>
</subsection>
</section>
<section name="Nested Components">
<p>The following components may be nested inside a <strong>Server</strong>
element:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="service.html"><strong>Service</strong></a> -
One or more service element.</li>
<li><a href="globalresources.html"><strong>GlobalNamingResources</strong></a> -
Configure the JNDI global resources for the server.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section name="Special Features">
<p>There are no special features associated with a <strong>Server</strong>.
</p>
</section>
</body>
</document>