Author: Alex Chaffee (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=3) The Tomcat Apache HOWTO has been revised and placed on the Tomcat web site. Here's a way to do it: Getting, Installing and starting Tomcat Download Tomcat from here: Get Tomcat Installing and starting Tomcat This is a breeze. It consists of the following steps: Unzip "jakarta-tomcat.zip" to the root drive. The zip automatically makes a "jakarta-tomcat" folder and extracts to it.

Servlet aliasing is a two part process with Apache and Tomcat. First, you must map the request in Apache to Tomcat with the ApJServMount directive, e.g., ApJServMount /myservlet /ROOT Second, you must map that url pattern to a servlet name and then to a servlet class in your web.xml configuration file. Here is a sample exerpt: <servlet> <servlet-name>myservlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.mypackage.

This service configuration is given as an example of the WARP connector in the default Tomcat server installation and is not required for basic development purposes. The WARP connector allows Tomcat to establish two-way communication with a standard Apache HTTP server so they can delegate the response to Web requests. This means that Apache HTTPd can respond to requests for static content such as images, while Tomcat can service requests for JSP and servlets for example.

Author: Alex Chaffee (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=3) STeve Punte, from the Tomcat Users List, writes: The web site http://www.ccl.net/cca/software/UNIX/apache/index.shtml was great for me on getting SSL operational. Not for the faint of heart! Also, Jun Inamori has written a great tutorial walkthrough on compiling and installing Apache with Tomcat and JServ at http://www.oop-reserch.com/tomcat_3_1/.

Tomcat is based on the original implementation of the JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Java Servlet specifications, which was donated by Sun to the Apache Software Foundation in 1999. Sun continues to participate in development of Tomcat at Apache, focusing on keeping Tomcat current with new versions of the specifications coming out of the Java Community Source Process. Sun adapts and integrates the then-current Tomcat source code into new releases of the J2EE SDK.

Because we can control the installation and configuration of an Apache web server during install, we use it as the default web server even though Microsoft IIS is usually available on a Windows 2000/XP/2003 platform. Apache also provides a cleaner servlet container through Tomcat. However, we also provide an IIS Plug-in, and you can configure IIS as the web server if you have a requirement to use Microsoft technologies.

We run Apache as a front-end for Tomcat, using mod_jk. In this configuration, Apache sees all Web requests. It processes some itself, and hands others off to Tomcat for processing. If you would like Tomcat to handle other URL patterns, you need to request us to set that up for you. For example, if you have a servlet-based online store at http://www.yourdomain.com/store, then you probably want Apache to send all URL's of the form /store/* to Tomcat.

Make sure you do all steps as root. Download and install Tomcat x@y:/$ cd /usr/local x@y:/usr/local/$ wget http://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-5/v5.0.28/bin/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28.tar.gz x@y:/usr/local/$ tar -zxf jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28.tar.gz x@y:/usr/local/$ mv jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28 tomcat Make script so you can start-stop-restart Tomcat (make sure that java path is correct!). x@y:/$ cd /etc/init.d x@y:/etc/init.

The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: ...

Tomcat is an open-source HTTP server from the Apache Foundation, written in Java, that supports Servlets and JSP. It can also be used as a "plug-in" to native-code HTTP servers, such as Apache Web Server and IIS, to provide support for Servlets (while still serving normal HTTP requests from the primary, native-code web server).

First make sure you have defined the environment variable JAVA_HOME to point to the root directory where you have the JDK installed. Then simply invoke on Windows Then in JDebugTool, select Attach... from the Target menu in the menubar, to display the Attach to Target dialog. On Windows, select the Shared Memory tab, and enter jdbconn in the Shared Memory Name field. On Unix, select the Socket tab, and enter 8000 in the Port Number field.

You can indirectly debug a Tomcat 5.0 JSP, by generating the corresponding Java source file, and then Mounting the corresponding Source Path in JDebugTool. First you will need to attach JDebugTool to Tomcat as described in FAQ #25 above. Then you will need to invoke your JSP to determine where the generated Java source file is created. For example, you would then Mount the following Source Path (see FAQ #1): where mywebapp would be the corresponding name of your web app.

Author: Serge Knystautas (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=100012) Question originally posed by Alex Chaffee PREMIUM (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=3 [The Tomcat User's Guide has a section called "Configuring Virtual Hosting" at http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat/src/doc/uguide/tomcat_ug.html. This document should also be in the distribution under the doc directory.

runs on Windows NT/9x, Netware 5.x and above, OS/2, and most versions of Unix, as well as several other operating systems DBM databases for authentication allows you to easily set up password-protected pages with enormous numbers of authorized users, without bogging down the server. Customized responses to errors and problems Allows you to set up files, or even CGI scripts, which are returned by the server in response to errors and problems, e.g.

No, WWW File Share Pro can run individually so there is no need to install any HTTP server (IIS/Apache/Pws/Tomcat/etc) on your computer. Any port number from 1 to 65535 could be valid. But it seems that another program is running on port 80 on your computer. So WWW File Share Pro can not use that port and you must choose another port number. Such as 81, 90, 2000, 3045, etc. Please change the port number on the main window of WWW File Share Pro and click the 'Start' button to try again.

After you have created the DSO, you may find Apache Shared Modules of use. This is an article by Brian Long which includes information on installing Apache DSOs. You can deploy applications you create using Apache Shared Modules on either Win32 or Linux Apache web servers with IntraWeb. ApacheConf is an inexpensive third party GUI configuration tool for Apache that you may find useful as well.

If you are trying to run multiple Tomcat servers, you will have to have seperate port numbers for each server. See:

No. You can choose any web server on the market that supports JSP and Servlets (e.g. Sun ONE Web Server, IBM WebSphere, BEA Weblogic and others). We are working closely with a variety of partners to support them in quickly adding JSP and Servlet support to their web servers.

Most likely you forgot that we are using Apache which then passes requests on to Tomcat via mod_jk and there is no mapping in Apache for the new application. Also note that the mappings do not allow multiple wildcards or exclusion lists in a JkMount, so we can do If you have a tomcat installation and you whish to use a servlet to replace noexist documents, and you want to do it using Apache and PHP, then Handle properly the wrong requested URL at the servlet "notFoundHandler".

root stop Apache, Tomcat, and Tomcat2. /opt/apache/bin/apachectl stop /opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh /opt/tomcat2/bin/shutdown.sh As root start Apache, Tomcat, and Tomcat2. /opt/apache/bin/apachectl start /opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh /opt/tomcat2/bin/startup.sh

Is there any way to control the content of automatically generated mod_jk.conf-auto? I need my own specific commands added to it.

Author: Alex Chaffee (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=3) You have to add the '--enable-module=so' option to your 'configure' call in order to enable DSO, i.e.: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable_rule=SHARED_CORE --enable-module=so (Thanks to Peter Theill from the Tomcat User Mailing List.) Comments and alternative answers

Author: John Mitchell (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=4) Question originally posed by Achim Dreyer (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=29434 As of Tomcat 3.3, the User's Guide is included in the distribution as http://127.0.0.1:8080/doc/tomcat-ug.html. -Alex] Comments and alternative answers Append the following line to your httpd.conf Include /path/to/tomcat/tomcat.conf or Include /path/to/tomcat/tomcat-apache.

I need to determine a version of tomcat and apache plus the connector module. I think knowing what you are using will help greatly.