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Miscellaneous configuration

You can configure the following Dari features in the Tomcat context.xml file, where options are expressed as name-value pairs.

Signed cookies

The following table lists available context.xml configuration values for signed cookies.

Key

Type

Description

dari/cookieSecret

java.lang.String

Used by the JspUtils class to implement secure signed cookies. Enter a reasonably long random string of characters.

Caching filter

The following table lists available context.xml configuration values for caching filters.

Key

Type

Description

dari/isCachingFilterEnabled

java.lang.Boolean

Used by CachingDatabaseFilter to create or not create an instance of CachingDatabase.

Mail provider

The following table lists available context.xml configuration values for outgoing mail servers.

Key

Type

Description

dari/defaultMailProvider

java.lang.String

Indicates integration of a mail provider with Brightspot. Set the value to a label that identifies the configuration of the mail provider.

dari/mailProvider/{id}/class

java.lang.String

Mail provider class that implements the MailProvider interface. Set the value to the fully qualified class name. You can specify a custom class or SmtpMailProvider provided with Brightspot. Replace {id} with the value that you set for dari/defaultMailProvider.

dari/mailProvider/{id}/host

java.lang.String

Host on which your mail provider runs. Replace {id} with the value that you set for dari/defaultMailProvider.

dari/mailProvider/{id}/port

java.lang.String

Port number on which the outgoing mail server is running. Replace {id} with the value that you set for dari/defaultMailProvider.

dari/mailProvider/{id}/username

java.lang.String

Username for the outgoing mail server. Replace {id} with the value that you set for dari/defaultMailProvider.

dari/mailProvider/{id}/password

java.lang.String

Password for the outgoing mail server. Replace {id} with the value that you set for dari/defaultMailProvider.

The following snippet configures out outgoing mail server with ID mymailserver.

<Environment name="dari/defaultMailProvider" type="java.lang.String" value="mymailserver" />
<Environment name="dari/mailProvider/mymailserver/class" type="java.lang.String" value="com.psddev.dari.util.SmtpMailProvider" />
<Environment name="dari/mailProvider/mymailserver/host" type="java.lang.String" value="mysmtpserver.amazonaws.com}" />
<Environment name="dari/mailProvider/mymailserver/port" type="java.lang.String" value="8080" />
<Environment name="dari/mailProvider/mymailserver/username" type="java.lang.String" value="handsome" />
<Environment name="dari/mailProvider/mymailserver/password" type="java.lang.String" value="evenmorehandsome" />
Overriding configuration values

Almost every <Environment> element in context.xml includes a Boolean override attribute.

  • If true, the corresponding setting in the webapp's web.xml takes precedence over the setting in context.xml.

  • If false, the setting in context.xml takes precedence over the corresponding setting in the webapp's web.xml.

For example, the following stanza appears in web.xml.

Example 58. Configuration in web.xml
<env-entry>
    <env-entry-name>cms/tool/isAutoCreateUser</env-entry-name>
    <env-entry-type>java.lang.Boolean</env-entry-type>
    <env-entry-value>true</env-entry-value>
</env-entry>


The following corresponding element appears in context.xml.

Example 59. Configuration in context.xml
<Environment name="cms/tool/isAutoCreateUser" type="java.lang.Boolean" value="false" override="false" />


In this scenario, the value false in Configuration in context.xml takes precedence over the value in Configuration in web.xml, because the override attribute is set to false.