RE: standalone production?

2004-05-27 Thread Shapira, Yoav

Hi,
That'll be done too, but those docs only get updated when we do a new
release, and I didn't want to wait to post the content.

Yoav Shapira
Millennium Research Informatics


>-Original Message-
>From: Parsons Technical Services
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:00 AM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: Re: standalone production?
>
>If this is the case, then why not fix the
>http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/setup.html
>page to show the correct(updated) information?
>
>Doug
>
>- Original Message -
>From: "Shapira, Yoav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:19 AM
>Subject: RE: standalone production?
>
>
>
>Hi,
>Good post.  I've added it to the FAQ:
>http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/faq/security.html#jsvcExample.
>
>Yoav Shapira
>Millennium Research Informatics
>
>
>>-----Original Message-
>>From: RJ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:17 AM
>>To: Tomcat Users List
>>Subject: RE: standalone production?
>>
>>The http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/setup.html
>>isn't the way for doing jsvc that I used (it didn't work
>>right).
>>
>>You should already have jsvc.tar.gz in the bin dir
>>for tomcat; unpack it, and follow the instructions
>>in INSTALL.txt for building jsvc.  There's a page for
>>it at http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon/jsvc.html
>>as well.
>>
>>Then, you use the tomcat/bin/jsvc-src/native/Tomcat5.sh
>>script to start and stop it, after first editing that
>>script to get the values in there right.  Mine is
>>as follows (that $DAEMON_HOME/jsvc-src/jsvc \ one
>>was important, since it defaulted to a different
>>directory structure than the one that was created by
>>my jsvc and tomcat unpacking).
>>
>>Then I did chown on the files in the tomcat directory
>>to be my non-root 'tomcat' user, fixed the server.xml
>>to have non-SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 80
>>and SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 443
>>and it seems to be working like a champ.
>>
>>I also got the logging running by un-commenting the
>>AccessLogValve at the end of server.xml, and changed
>>the pattern=common to pattern=combined
>>so I could get apache-type logs like I had before.
>>
>>MUCH nicer than fooling with those connectors.
>>
>>Now, if I can only figure out why the 'referer' is
>>always blank when somebody first hits my site, I'll
>>be very happy...
>>
>>rj
>>
>>#!/bin/sh
>>##
#
>
>>###
>>#
>>#   Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
>>#
>>#   Licensed 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.
>>##
#
>
>>###
>>#
>># Small shell script to show how to start/stop Tomcat using jsvc
>># If you want to have Tomcat running on port 80 please modify the
>>server.xml
>># file:
>>#
>>#
>>#>className="org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpConnector"
>>#   port="80" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75"
>>#   enableLookups="true" redirectPort="8443"
>>#   acceptCount="10" debug="0" connectionTimeout="6"/>
>>#
>># That is for Tomcat-5.0.x (Apache Tomcat/5.0)
>>#
>># Adapt the following lines to your configuration
>>JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03
>>CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat5
>>DAEMON_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat5/bin
>>TOMCAT_USER=tomcat
>>TMP_DIR=/var/tmp
>>CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms64m -Xmx200m"
>>CLASSPATH=\
>>$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:\
>>$CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-daemon.jar:\
>>$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar
>>
>>case "$1

Re: standalone production?

2004-05-27 Thread Parsons Technical Services
If this is the case, then why not fix the
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/setup.html
page to show the correct(updated) information?

Doug

- Original Message - 
From: "Shapira, Yoav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:19 AM
Subject: RE: standalone production?



Hi,
Good post.  I've added it to the FAQ:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/faq/security.html#jsvcExample.

Yoav Shapira
Millennium Research Informatics


>-Original Message-
>From: RJ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:17 AM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: RE: standalone production?
>
>The http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/setup.html
>isn't the way for doing jsvc that I used (it didn't work
>right).
>
>You should already have jsvc.tar.gz in the bin dir
>for tomcat; unpack it, and follow the instructions
>in INSTALL.txt for building jsvc.  There's a page for
>it at http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon/jsvc.html
>as well.
>
>Then, you use the tomcat/bin/jsvc-src/native/Tomcat5.sh
>script to start and stop it, after first editing that
>script to get the values in there right.  Mine is
>as follows (that $DAEMON_HOME/jsvc-src/jsvc \ one
>was important, since it defaulted to a different
>directory structure than the one that was created by
>my jsvc and tomcat unpacking).
>
>Then I did chown on the files in the tomcat directory
>to be my non-root 'tomcat' user, fixed the server.xml
>to have non-SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 80
>and SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 443
>and it seems to be working like a champ.
>
>I also got the logging running by un-commenting the
>AccessLogValve at the end of server.xml, and changed
>the pattern=common to pattern=combined
>so I could get apache-type logs like I had before.
>
>MUCH nicer than fooling with those connectors.
>
>Now, if I can only figure out why the 'referer' is
>always blank when somebody first hits my site, I'll
>be very happy...
>
>rj
>
>#!/bin/sh
>###

>###
>#
>#   Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
>#
>#   Licensed 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.
>###

>###
>#
># Small shell script to show how to start/stop Tomcat using jsvc
># If you want to have Tomcat running on port 80 please modify the
>server.xml
># file:
>#
>#
>#className="org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpConnector"
>#   port="80" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75"
>#   enableLookups="true" redirectPort="8443"
>#   acceptCount="10" debug="0" connectionTimeout="6"/>
>#
># That is for Tomcat-5.0.x (Apache Tomcat/5.0)
>#
># Adapt the following lines to your configuration
>JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03
>CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat5
>DAEMON_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat5/bin
>TOMCAT_USER=tomcat
>TMP_DIR=/var/tmp
>CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms64m -Xmx200m"
>CLASSPATH=\
>$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:\
>$CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-daemon.jar:\
>$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar
>
>case "$1" in
>   start)
> #
> # Start Tomcat
> #
> $DAEMON_HOME/jsvc-src/jsvc \
> -user $TOMCAT_USER \
> -home $JAVA_HOME \
> -Dcatalina.home=$CATALINA_HOME \
> -Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMP_DIR \
> -outfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out \
> -errfile '&1' \
> $CATALINA_OPTS \
> -cp $CLASSPATH \
> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
> #
> # To get a verbose JVM
> #-verbose \
> # To get a debug of jsvc.
> #-debug \
> ;;
>
>   stop)
> #
> # Stop Tomcat
> #
> PID=`cat /var/run/jsvc.pid`
> kill $PID
> ;;
>
>   *)
> echo "Usage tomcat.sh start/stop"
> exit 1;;
>esac
>
>
>
>At 03:19 AM 5/27/2004, Justin Jaynes wrote:
>&g

RE: standalone production?

2004-05-27 Thread Shapira, Yoav

Hi,
Good post.  I've added it to the FAQ:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/faq/security.html#jsvcExample.

Yoav Shapira
Millennium Research Informatics


>-Original Message-
>From: RJ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:17 AM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: RE: standalone production?
>
>The http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/setup.html
>isn't the way for doing jsvc that I used (it didn't work
>right).
>
>You should already have jsvc.tar.gz in the bin dir
>for tomcat; unpack it, and follow the instructions
>in INSTALL.txt for building jsvc.  There's a page for
>it at http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon/jsvc.html
>as well.
>
>Then, you use the tomcat/bin/jsvc-src/native/Tomcat5.sh
>script to start and stop it, after first editing that
>script to get the values in there right.  Mine is
>as follows (that $DAEMON_HOME/jsvc-src/jsvc \ one
>was important, since it defaulted to a different
>directory structure than the one that was created by
>my jsvc and tomcat unpacking).
>
>Then I did chown on the files in the tomcat directory
>to be my non-root 'tomcat' user, fixed the server.xml
>to have non-SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 80
>and SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 443
>and it seems to be working like a champ.
>
>I also got the logging running by un-commenting the
>AccessLogValve at the end of server.xml, and changed
>the pattern=common to pattern=combined
>so I could get apache-type logs like I had before.
>
>MUCH nicer than fooling with those connectors.
>
>Now, if I can only figure out why the 'referer' is
>always blank when somebody first hits my site, I'll
>be very happy...
>
>rj
>
>#!/bin/sh
>###

>###
>#
>#   Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
>#
>#   Licensed 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.
>###

>###
>#
># Small shell script to show how to start/stop Tomcat using jsvc
># If you want to have Tomcat running on port 80 please modify the
>server.xml
># file:
>#
>#
>#className="org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpConnector"
>#   port="80" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75"
>#   enableLookups="true" redirectPort="8443"
>#   acceptCount="10" debug="0" connectionTimeout="6"/>
>#
># That is for Tomcat-5.0.x (Apache Tomcat/5.0)
>#
># Adapt the following lines to your configuration
>JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03
>CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat5
>DAEMON_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat5/bin
>TOMCAT_USER=tomcat
>TMP_DIR=/var/tmp
>CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms64m -Xmx200m"
>CLASSPATH=\
>$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:\
>$CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-daemon.jar:\
>$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar
>
>case "$1" in
>   start)
> #
> # Start Tomcat
> #
> $DAEMON_HOME/jsvc-src/jsvc \
> -user $TOMCAT_USER \
> -home $JAVA_HOME \
> -Dcatalina.home=$CATALINA_HOME \
> -Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMP_DIR \
> -outfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out \
> -errfile '&1' \
> $CATALINA_OPTS \
> -cp $CLASSPATH \
> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
> #
> # To get a verbose JVM
> #-verbose \
> # To get a debug of jsvc.
> #-debug \
> ;;
>
>   stop)
> #
> # Stop Tomcat
> #
> PID=`cat /var/run/jsvc.pid`
> kill $PID
> ;;
>
>   *)
> echo "Usage tomcat.sh start/stop"
> exit 1;;
>esac
>
>
>
>At 03:19 AM 5/27/2004, Justin Jaynes wrote:
>>I am intending to run in a fully internet exposed
>>environment and I only have ONE physical machine to
>>use for deployment.  It will be directly connected to
>>the internet at co-location service provider.  So ...
>>
>>In a conversation from yesterday, it appears another
>>user had a similar question.  How to run on port 80,
>&

RE: standalone production?

2004-05-27 Thread RJ
The http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/setup.html
isn't the way for doing jsvc that I used (it didn't work
right).
You should already have jsvc.tar.gz in the bin dir
for tomcat; unpack it, and follow the instructions
in INSTALL.txt for building jsvc.  There's a page for
it at http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon/jsvc.html
as well.
Then, you use the tomcat/bin/jsvc-src/native/Tomcat5.sh
script to start and stop it, after first editing that
script to get the values in there right.  Mine is
as follows (that $DAEMON_HOME/jsvc-src/jsvc \ one
was important, since it defaulted to a different
directory structure than the one that was created by
my jsvc and tomcat unpacking).
Then I did chown on the files in the tomcat directory
to be my non-root 'tomcat' user, fixed the server.xml
to have non-SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 80
and SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 443
and it seems to be working like a champ.
I also got the logging running by un-commenting the
AccessLogValve at the end of server.xml, and changed
the pattern=common to pattern=combined
so I could get apache-type logs like I had before.
MUCH nicer than fooling with those connectors.
Now, if I can only figure out why the 'referer' is
always blank when somebody first hits my site, I'll
be very happy...
rj
#!/bin/sh
##
#
#   Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
#
#   Licensed 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.
##
#
# Small shell script to show how to start/stop Tomcat using jsvc
# If you want to have Tomcat running on port 80 please modify the server.xml
# file:
#
#
#
#
# That is for Tomcat-5.0.x (Apache Tomcat/5.0)
#
# Adapt the following lines to your configuration
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03
CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat5
DAEMON_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat5/bin
TOMCAT_USER=tomcat
TMP_DIR=/var/tmp
CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms64m -Xmx200m"
CLASSPATH=\
$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:\
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-daemon.jar:\
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar
case "$1" in
  start)
#
# Start Tomcat
#
$DAEMON_HOME/jsvc-src/jsvc \
-user $TOMCAT_USER \
-home $JAVA_HOME \
-Dcatalina.home=$CATALINA_HOME \
-Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMP_DIR \
-outfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out \
-errfile '&1' \
$CATALINA_OPTS \
-cp $CLASSPATH \
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
#
# To get a verbose JVM
#-verbose \
# To get a debug of jsvc.
#-debug \
;;
  stop)
#
# Stop Tomcat
#
PID=`cat /var/run/jsvc.pid`
kill $PID
;;
  *)
echo "Usage tomcat.sh start/stop"
exit 1;;
esac

At 03:19 AM 5/27/2004, Justin Jaynes wrote:
I am intending to run in a fully internet exposed
environment and I only have ONE physical machine to
use for deployment.  It will be directly connected to
the internet at co-location service provider.  So ...
In a conversation from yesterday, it appears another
user had a similar question.  How to run on port 80,
securly.
Is it possible to run tomcat with a non-priviliged
user?  What is this JSVC approach they referred to,
and what is the solution that was given?  Where can I
go to read more?
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Re: standalone production?

2004-05-27 Thread Parsons Technical Services
Justin,

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/setup.html
and
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&m=108373546715111&w=2
and
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon/
Use directions from the first two. The third is for description of product.

Doug
www.parsonstechnical.com



- Original Message - 
From: "Justin Jaynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:19 AM
Subject: RE: standalone production?


> I am intending to run in a fully internet exposed
> environment and I only have ONE physical machine to
> use for deployment.  It will be directly connected to
> the internet at co-location service provider.  So ...
> 
> In a conversation from yesterday, it appears another
> user had a similar question.  How to run on port 80,
> securly.
> 
> Is it possible to run tomcat with a non-priviliged
> user?  What is this JSVC approach they referred to,
> and what is the solution that was given?  Where can I
> go to read more?
> 
> OK, I've been running tomcat behind apache for ages,
> and
> >> >now I want to go with Yoav's oft-stated advice to
> just
> >> >use tomcat (5.0.24) alone.  And I want it on port
> 80.
> >> >
> >> >So, I try to use the jsvc approach, telling it to
> go to
> >> >the nonprivileged tomcat user by (from the tomcat
> site):
> >> >
> >> >./bin/jsvc -Djava.endorsed.dirs=./common/endorsed
> -cp
> >>./bin/bootstrap.jar \
> >> > -outfile ./logs/catalina.out -errfile
> ./logs/catalina.err \
> >> > org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
> -user tomcat
> >> >
> >> >However, that chokes as follows, as it apparently
> can't use port
> >> >80 as I'm wanting it to.
> >> >
> >> >I'm sure this must be trivial, but all help would
> be
> >> >appreciated!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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RE: standalone production?

2004-05-27 Thread Justin Jaynes
I am intending to run in a fully internet exposed
environment and I only have ONE physical machine to
use for deployment.  It will be directly connected to
the internet at co-location service provider.  So ...

In a conversation from yesterday, it appears another
user had a similar question.  How to run on port 80,
securly.

Is it possible to run tomcat with a non-priviliged
user?  What is this JSVC approach they referred to,
and what is the solution that was given?  Where can I
go to read more?

OK, I've been running tomcat behind apache for ages,
and
>> >now I want to go with Yoav's oft-stated advice to
just
>> >use tomcat (5.0.24) alone.  And I want it on port
80.
>> >
>> >So, I try to use the jsvc approach, telling it to
go to
>> >the nonprivileged tomcat user by (from the tomcat
site):
>> >
>> >./bin/jsvc -Djava.endorsed.dirs=./common/endorsed
-cp
>>./bin/bootstrap.jar \
>> > -outfile ./logs/catalina.out -errfile
./logs/catalina.err \
>> > org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
-user tomcat
>> >
>> >However, that chokes as follows, as it apparently
can't use port
>> >80 as I'm wanting it to.
>> >
>> >I'm sure this must be trivial, but all help would
be
>> >appreciated!





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RE: standalone production?

2004-05-27 Thread Shane Linley
What I think you need to consider is the risk of running TC in this manner
dependant on where and what the TC instance is being deployed for.

The risk MAY be acceptable if you are intending on running a TC instance
internally on an intranet or something similar, as then you only have to
worry about internal threats to its operation. (Considering that your
external defenses [if you have an external access point] are up to the task
of keeping attackers out from the outside) But lets not forget that a large
proportion of attacks do come internally.

If you are running this TC in an internet facing environment it is generally
considered good practice to have a proxy of some sort for the TC instance in
an DMZ and have the TC running behind the DMZ protected (hopefully) from
most attacks. Putting an application server into the DMZ is generally
considered a bad practice due to the impact that can be had should an
attacker compromise it (of course dependant on the relative risk of having
it there).

Also you need to consider what exactly this TC is doing, and what risk is
posed by its operation being modifed/destroyed by an attacker and what the
impact of such a event could be. Once you know your risk on running it this
way then you can decide whether this configuration is "safe" for you or not.
Of course you should always aim to reduce your risk (and the exposure caused
by the risk) but balanced against the costs of implementing and maintaining
a highly secure system.

If you have system admins and whatnot for your production server then they
should know alot about this already and can help you out deciding what to
do.

Regards,
Shane.

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From: Justin Jaynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 27 May 2004 2:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: standalone production?


Is it considered safe to run tomcat as a stand-alone
production server on ports 80 and 443?  This requires
tomcat to run as root (or so I have read) and it is
therefore "not recommended".  Using apache forks child
processes that run as nobody.  But I don' want to use
apache.  Again, is it safe to run tomcat as a
stand-alone production server on port 80 and 443 as
root?  Or is there some way to deny root permissions
and still use these ports?




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