How is trace disabled in tomcat?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • 6.x
    • 5.x
  • Red Hat Satellite 6

Issue

  • How is trace disabled in tomcat?
  • A server running tomcat is failing PCI audit due to track and trace being enabled; how are these disabled?

Resolution

  • Add the allowTrace="False" attribute to the HTTP connector in server.xml. For instance, this has been added to the default connector below:

    <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
           connectionTimeout="20000" 
           redirectPort="8443" 
           allowTrace="False" />

  • Satellite 6.2 has two connectors for tomcat.

#vi /etc/tomcat/server.xml
 <Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
                allowTrace="False" />

  <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               redirectPort="8443" />
               allowTrace="False" />

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