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<h1>How To Configure Tomcat</h1><br><br>
<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>WebGoat comes with default configurations for Tomcat. This page will explain these configurations
and other possible configurations for Tomcat. This is just
a short description which should be enough in most cases. For more advanced tasks please
refer to the Tomcat documentation. Please note that all solutions
are written for the standard configurations on port 80 or 8080. If you use another port you have
to adjust the solution to your configuration.</p>
<h2>The Standard Configurations</h2>
<p>WebGoat has multiple ways of being run. The <a href="https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/wiki/Installation-(WebGoat-6.0)">
WebGoat Wiki</a> is the best place to find the latest configuration instructions.
By default WebGoat will run on port 8080. In the basic configurations you use the server on your localhost.
In Linux you have to start WebGoat as root or with sudo if you want to run it on port 80 and
443. Running software as root is dangerous we strongly advice to use
the port 8080 and 8443.
</p>
<h2>Server Configurations</h2>
<p>
If you are a single user of WebGoat the standard configurations should be
enough but if you want to use WebGoat in laboratory or in class there
might be the need to change the configurations. Before changing
the configurations we recommend doing a backup of the files you change.
</p>
<h3>Change Ports</h3>
<p>
To change the ports open Tomcat's server.xml which you find in tomcat/conf and change the
non-SSL port. If you want to change your
Tomcat server to use it on port 8079 for example:
</p>
<pre>
&lt;!-- Define a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8079 --&gt;
&lt;Connector address=&quot;127.0.0.1&quot; port=&quot;8079&quot;...
</pre>
<p>
You can also change the SSL connector to another port of course.
In this example to port 8442:
</p>
<pre>
&lt;!-- Define a SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8442 --&gt;
&lt;Connector address=&quot;127.0.0.1&quot; port=&quot;8442&quot;...
</pre>
</p>
You can also modify WebGoat's pom.xml file to change the port. You will need to modify
the tomcat7-maven-plugin plugin configuration.
</p>
<br>
<h3>Make WebGoat Reachable From Another Client</h3>
<p>THIS MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO REALLY ATTACK YOUR SERVER! DO NOT DO THIS
UNTIL YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. THIS CONFIGURATION SHOULD BE ONLY USED IN
SAFE NETWORKS!</p>
<p>By its default configuration, WebGoat is only
reachable within the localhost. In a laboratory or a class
there is maybe the need of having a server and a few clients.
In this case it is possible to make WebGoat reachable.
</p>
<h3>Permit Only Certain Client Connection</h3>
<p>
If you have made WebGoat reachable it is reachable for
all clients. If you want to make it reachable only for certain clients specified
by their IP you can archive this by using a 'Remote Address Filter'.
The filter can be set in a whitebox or blackbox approach. Here is
only discussed the whitebox approach. You have to add following lines to the
Host section of server.xml in your Tomcat server configuration:
</p>
<pre>
&lt;Valve className=&quot;org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve&quot;
allow=&quot;127.0.0.1,ip1,ip2&quot;/&gt;
</pre>
<p>In this case only localhost, ip1 and ip2 are permitted to connect.</p>
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