Tomcat 5.5 [PSARC/2008/065 FastTrack timeout 02/06/2008]

John Plocher John.Plocher at sun.com
Fri Feb 1 09:43:55 PST 2008


Petr Sumbera wrote:
> John Plocher wrote:
>> Petr Sumbera wrote:
>>> Tomcat is started (beside manually) via Apache 1.3 init script 
>>
>> What about Apache 2.x - how does this work with that version?
> 
> Answer is simple. It doesn't work.

OK, but...

> 
> Tomcat was introduced when there was no Apache 2. Tomcat is located in 
> Apache 1.3 subdirectory (usr/apache) and not in Apache 2 subdirectory 
> (usr/apache2).
> 
> But still it can be manually configured and run as stand-alone server or 
> to communicate with Apache 2. The best way is probably to reuse 
> /etc/init.d/apache.
> 
> For Apache 2.2 (in Nevada) there is by default mod_proxy_ajp.so which 
> communicates via AJP13 protocol. While for Apache 2.0 (Solaris 10) 
> mod_jk has to be compiled.


... here you say that it *does* work.  I'm confused.  What do I need to
do if I run Apache2 and wish to use tomcat5.5?

    -John




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