Limit the number of Tomcat connections

[jsteigs642]

Hi,
I have a tomcat6 web server running on Ubuntu and I was wondering if there was a way that I could limit the number of people who could access the website at a time.

Thanks
Justin

[aram535]

What you're asking for is impossible in today's environment.

Unless you create a "currently serving" system that keeps track of users as they come in and keep them in a database of some kind, so that the next "user" is denied. Otherwise the first X many requests made by anyone would be satisfied but not X+1, even though 1 second ago you were serving that client. Also a client can start multiple requests, does that count as 1 or 1 per request?

What you really want to do is set resource limitations so that your server doesn't crash and die, which you can do.