Tomcat Logfile Zipper

This is a tiny (~ 5kB) Java Servlet enabling easy downloading of Apache Tomcat logfiles via http, e.g. from a Tomcat inside a container.

What

• It sends a zip called file logs.zip containing all files in ${catalina.base}/logs, including subdirectories, to any client requesting its context path (/logs by default).
• The zip file is streamed directly to the client. This make this program memory friendly.
• It is built for trusted environments, i.e. performs no authentication. If you have secrets in your logfiles, don't use this
• Zero configuration
• Zero external dependencies

Why?

It originally was built to easily get logs out of tomcat running in a docker container.

Prerequisites

• Maven (tested with 3.3.3)

Building with Maven

• Maven: run mvn package to build. The resulting file is target/logs.war and can be dropped right into your webapps directory.
• To deploy via tomcat manager, run mvn tomcat7:redeploy -Dmaven.tomcat.url=http://<host>:<port>/manager/text -Dtomcat.username=<password>-Dtomcat.password=<password>

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