Tomcat4+Apache - Install trouble on Debian?

From: Gregory Guthrie (guthrie_at_mum.edu)
Date: 07/31/03

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    I'm having trouble with tomcat4+Apache(1.3) on Debian;
    I find that tomcat, and tomcat4, don't install properly from the regular
    stable apt-get packages.

    After much research on lists, FAQs, etc, there are lots of hints,
    do-it-yourself configurations, and other changes to try and conflicting
    recommendations(!), but I'd like to reduce the additional time involved
    (spent far too much already!); can't I just do an apt-get install tomcat4,
    and libapache-mod-webapp and have it work?

    Basically Tomcat seems to work fine standalone (port 8180), same for Apache
    (port 80), but I cannot get connected to Tomcat via apache.

    I first installed libapache-mod_jk, but it looks like that just adds an
    include to /etc/apache/httpd.conf which includes the empty file:
    /var/lib/tomcat/conf/mod_jk.conf
       -- which seems to be empty on purpose!?

    It does also indicate:
        JkWorkersFile /etc/tomcat/jk/workers.properties

    So, this looks like a null-connection from Apache to tomcat; and indeed
    Apache doesn't dispatch .jsp's to tomcat.

    I did (then) install libapache-mod-webapp, and added the lines to
    httpd.conf (as requested in tomcat4/server.xml), but still don't get apache
    to dispatch .jsp's to tomcat.

    The LoadModule seems to work fine; and logs this:
        2003-07-31 11:06:04 [org.apache.catalina.connector.warp.WarpConnector]
    Connection from localhost/127.0.0.1:1998 to localhost/127.0.0.1:8008

    But this uses mod-webapp, so now httpd.conf has two connectors?
          # LoadModule webapp_module libexec/mod_webapp.so
          WebAppConnection warpConnection warp localhost:8008
          # WebAppDeploy examples warpConnection /examples/ (Won't work..?)

          <IfModule mod_jk.c>
          # The following line is for apacheconfig - DO NOT REMOVE!
          JkWorkersFile /etc/tomcat/jk/workers.properties
           Include /var/lib/tomcat/conf/mod_jk.conf
           # added: GRG (from
    http://katanalynx.dyndns.org/~ajar/code/howtos/debian-tomcat4.html )
           Include /etc/apache/mod_jk/tomcat.conf
           </IfModule>

    Symptoms:

    1) From Apache .jsp's are just sent, not run.

    2) I cannot use any of the webapp directives in httpd.conf; e.g.
          # WebAppDeploy examples warpConnection /examples/
          # WebAppInfo /webappinfo

        Both give: "Invalid command, perhaps mispelled?

    3) the /examples (Tomcat) front pages come up, but then cannot access the
    servlets... (or JSPs)

    Hints? :-)

    --------------------------------------------------------
    Gregory Guthrie
    guthrie@mum.edu
    -------------------------------------------------------- 

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