Tomcat 6 Session Persistence through JDBCStore
In one of our recent projects, we needed to save the HTTP session in the database.
This blog refers the Apache documentation as found here: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/manager.html
These are the following steps that need to be followed:
Step 1: Create a database named tomcat (as shown in our example in Step 3 below) or any other name as specified in the ‘connectionURL’ attribute of the <Store> element.
Step 2: Create the following table in the newly created database:
create table sessions ( session_id varchar(100) not null primary key, valid_session char(1) not null, max_inactive int not null, last_access bigint not null, app_name varchar(255), session_data mediumblob, KEY kapp_name(app_name) );
Step 3: Copy the context.xml file available at the global level at this location: <TOMCAT_HOME>/conf to your application’s META-INF folder and replace the <Manager> element with the following:
If these settings are placed in the ‘<TOMCAT_HOME>/conf/context.xml‘, it will have a global effect on all the applications running on the server. For an application specific setting, you can place a newly created “context.xml” file in the <APP_HOME>/META-INF sub-folder inside the webapps folder.
Please note that attributes used in the <Store> element make use of the table columns as created in the database in Step 2.
Step 4: Set the following system properties named – ‘org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.ACTIVITY_CHECK‘ to ‘true‘.
For further information on this, read the ‘Persistent Manager Implementation’ section at this link : http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/manager.html
Step 5: Make sure you have placed the MySql jar in the <TOMCAT_HOME>/lib folder.
Now you can try to hit the application’s URL and check the database table to see the newly persisted session. Please note that it takes around 60 seconds to see the stored session in the database so you might have to wait a bit. You can have multiple instances of tomcat running your application pointing to the same database and can share this persisted session in case any of the tomcat instance crashes.
Cheers!!!
Abhishek & Imran
abhishek@intelligrape.com | imran@intelligrape.com
[Intelligrape Software Pvt. Ltd.]
set “CATALINA_OPTS=%CATALINA_OPTS% -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Dorg.apache.catalina.STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE=true -Dorg.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.ACTIVITY_CHECK=true -Duser.timezone=GMT -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m” ..add these lines in the $CATALINA_HOME\bin\setenv.bat if you are using windows and setenv.sh in linux.Create one if you dont have setenv.bat Follow the steps mentioned above .It worked for me Thanks!!!!
set “CATALINA_OPTS=%CATALINA_OPTS% -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Dorg.apache.catalina.STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE=true -Dorg.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.ACTIVITY_CHECK=true -Duser.timezone=GMT -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m” ..add these lines in the $CATALINA_HOME\bin\setenv.bat if you are using windows and setenv.sh in linux.Create one if you dont have setenv.bat Follow the steps mentioned above .It worked for me Thanks!!!!
set “CATALINA_OPTS=%CATALINA_OPTS% -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Dorg.apache.catalina.STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE=true -Dorg.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.ACTIVITY_CHECK=true -Duser.timezone=GMT -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m” ..add these lines in the $CATALINA_HOMEbinsetenv.bat if you are using windows and setenv.sh in linux.Create one if you dont have setenv.bat Follow the steps mentioned above .It worked for me Thanks!!!!
@anant
driverClassName=”net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver”
url=”jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://L-156019768:1433/your _db_name”
can you please help me out achiving the same for the SQL Server in place of mySQL. I have downloaded the JDBC driver jar from microsoft and have placed it in the tomcat lib. i am struggling to find the class name and the drivername parameters property for the above configuration.
what is ” KEY kapp_name(app_name) ” , i tried with mysql but it is showing error.
Hi
If I replicate my database , can I give multiple databse names in the connection URL
Regards
Anil
hi all
i run liferay portal on tomcat-6.0.26
i did the exactly when i run my server i get this log out
Mar 14, 2012 2:50:57 PM org.apache.catalina.session.JDBCStore getConnection
INFO: The database connection is null or was found to be closed. Trying to re-open it.
this is my
#context.xml
#server.xml
and i add in my
#system-ext.properties
org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.ACTIVITY_CHECK=true
hi all
i run liferay portal on tomcat-6.0.26
i did the exactly when i run my server i get this log out
Mar 14, 2012 2:50:57 PM org.apache.catalina.session.JDBCStore getConnection
INFO: The database connection is null or was found to be closed. Trying to re-open it.
this is my
#context.xml
#server.xml
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and i add in my
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org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.ACTIVITY_CHECK=true
Hi Abhishek,
how can I change the time interval to see the stored session in the database? (which you have mentioned as 60 seconds in step 5)
Cheers!
I found this link very useful. Whatever written, I exactly followed….now successfully setup the environment….cheers!
I did exactly as you wrote above in article. I appreciate it very much . But I am getting error that my application is not available.