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.

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.

Author: Serge Knystautas (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=100012) Question originally posed by Felix Wong (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=102927 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.

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.

Author: Marcus Lachmanez (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=24147) Question originally posed by IRO Lam (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=79938 If you need just a background process then place a'&' behind the program/java-interpreter. [OK, but how do we make it automatically start? What config files do we need to edit (as root or otherwise)? -Alex] You need to be root to set this up. You write a (/bin/sh) script in /etc/init.

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".

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: 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/.

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.

A compiled mod_jk for linux can be found at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat/release/v3.2.1/bin/linux/i386/ , documentation at http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat/src/doc/mod_jk-howto.html No, mod_jk and mod_jserv are not compatible (cannot be installed in the same instance of Apache). When transitioning, I've used mod_jserv for both Tomcat and JServ instances with different ports.

Author: Alex Chaffee (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=3) Question originally posed by SREEDHAR REDDY (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=111571 Apache is an HTTP server written in C that can be compiled and run on many platforms. See http://www.apache.org Tomcat is an open-source HTTP server from the Apache Foundation, written in Java, that supports Servlets and JSP.

Author: Brian Ewins (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=301660) Question originally posed by Guy Zürcher (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=203476 This is described in the Tomcat User Guide at: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat/src/doc/uguide/tomcat_ug.html Look for the section called "Making Apache Serve your Context's Static Files" Comments and alternative answers