Apache Tomcat

[tolstoy]

Does anyone have tomcat running with apache? I only ask this because I need to get it running (I had to switch from Jserv) and cannot find any good docs on getting it running correctly. I have been all over the Jarkata project’s website, but nothing seems to be written too clearly. What I am looking for is a simple howto (or not so simple) that says you must do X,Y and Z to get it running. All I’m finding so far are docs telling me about tomcat’s guts. While this is all good info, right now I just want it to simply serve my apps.

[cloverm]

I got this working. Just download this file: http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jak…0.4-src.tar.gz
Unpack it, and read the README.txt file in the webapp folder.

Good luck!

[tolstoy]

Thanks. I think my problem is that I’m using the rpm version and am having problems starting tomcat due to JAVA_HOME path (java gives me an error that it can’t find libstdc++, or something like that). Two questions 1) Can I run tomcat as a standalone on the same box as Apache (I’m assuming all urls to it will have to point to 8080). 2) Can I build it from source and integrate it into Apache with the webbapps module if Apache was installed from an RPM?

In the past I had all my LAMP stuff compiled from source , and for ease of upgrades and patches, I reinstalled everything as an RPM. Not without problems however.

[cloverm]

I think the answer to both questions is yes. I had Apache installed from .debs. As a matter of fact tomcat will always run stand-alone, you just connect to it from Apache through webapp.

[tolstoy]

Thanks for the help cloverm The README.txt and BUILDING.txt were all the docs I needed.

It seemed that tomcat was dying because I needed the latest (release candidate) jdk. At least that’s what got it running (the rpm would have also run on that, had I found this error earlier). I wound up using the pre-compiled binary, as building from source seemed a like an un-necessarliy long and painful task.

Another quick question. Do all my urls to my apps have to have be to http://my_meb_app:8080? Or can I simply point to apache on 80 like I did with JServ?

[cloverm]

If you want to connect to Tomcat without Apache you would use http://yourserver:8080/some/page.jsp. However, if you have webapp installed and setup for apache, you can also use http://yourserver/jsp/some/page.jsp. This assumes of course that you set up webapp in apache.conf with the "jsp" folder. You can name it anything you want to.

[tolstoy]

Cool. Thanks again. I’d rather do that. I’m assuming if I do that I’ll only need to open port 80 at the firewall. Correct? Man am I full of questions today.

[cloverm]

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Cool. Thanks again. I’d rather do that. I’m assuming if I do that I’ll only need to open port 80 at the firewall. Correct? Man am I full of questions today.
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Correct.