Excellent document; thank you for sharing it with apache.org. Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: G.Lams@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:G.Lams@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:55 AM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Tomcat - basic install question > > > Hi all, > > I am getting ready to install Tomcat 4.x as on a test > bed, and I am > > wondering what is the usual and customary installation > directory. /usr, > > > /sbin, etc. Any comments appreciated - yes I am fairly new > to Linux, > > apache and a neonate with Tomcat. > > > > Hi Bod, > > Is there a reason to use Tomcat 4.x? I would suggest to use > Tomcat 5.x, > Tomcat 5.5.12 being the last stable release. As for the installation > directory, I use to install tomcat in /opt/jakarta but that's just a > preference. > > By the way, Tomcat 5.5 is designed to run on J2SE 5.0 and > later and uses > the Eclipse JDT Java compiler for compiling JSP pages. This > means that > you no longer need to have the complete JDK to run Tomcat, a > Java Runtime > Environment (JRE) is sufficient. You can download it from > http://java.sun.com/j2se. > I personnaly use the JRE in the form of RPM packages, not the > self-extracting binary file (as a root: > ./jre-1_5_0_<version>-linux-i586-rpm.bin) > > Remember also to set an environment variable named JAVA_HOME to the > pathname of the directory into which you installed the JRE, > in this case: > /usr/java/jre1.5.0_05. To have it set globally, create the file > profile.local in /etc and write: export > JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_05 > (or whatever folder used ) > > In tomcat 5.5.x, Tomcat's administration web application is no longer > installed by default. Download and install the "admin" > package to use it. > > If I'm not wrong, tomcat comes wit two connectors: before starting to > configure mod_jk (or mod_proxy_ajp, depending of the version > of the apache > installed), verify that tomcat works by going to > http://address_of_your_server:8080 > > To connect Tomcat to Apache, you need to use: > 1 mod_jk, the Tomcat redirector module. The ajp13 protocol > should be used, > as it's the only one known by Tomcat 4 and 5 > 2 Setup working entities, i.e Workers, between the apache and Tomcat > engines using the mandatory workers.properties file (a Tomcat > worker is a > Tomcat instance that is waiting to execute servlets or any > other content > on behalf of some web server). > > Concrete steps are: > 1 create the jk.conf file in /etc/apache2/conf.d (or wherever > are your > apache's configuration files) > 2 create the workers.properties in /opt/jakarta/tomcat (change it to > reflect your tomcat's installation folder) > 3 Add the module "jk" to the list of apache2 modules. > > I let you read the doc at tomcat.apache.org for what to put > into these > files. > > Hope it helps, in my case it works > > Gaël > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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