Hi Jordan, The installer worked very nicely! But I have one main question - how do I now move it away from port 8080 and use 80? I tried simply editing the server.xml file to port 80 but I still get the default Apache welcome page.
Thanks, Bien -- Bienvenido Concepcion web designer / developer phone: 202.550.0796 [email protected] On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Jordan Michaels <[email protected]>wrote: > > If you're interested in running OpenBD on Tomcat and CentOS, check out > the OpenBD Linux installer: > > http://openbd.viviotech.net/ > > ...click the "installer" directory, and download the latest installer. > > This is a shell script that installs a bundled version of OpenBD/Tomcat. > The installer automates the mod_jk installation, and the "as a service" > installation. > > OpenBD is installed in the ROOT context of Tomcat, which means it will > function much like the CF server's you're used to. The only difference > is that you'll have to modify Tomcat's server.xml file each time you add > a new CF-enabled domain. The server.xml file is documented though, and > should be pretty strait-forward. If you have any questions about it, > just ask here on the list. > > Hope this helps! > > Warm regards, > Jordan Michaels > Vivio Technologies > http://www.viviotech.net/ > Open BlueDragon Steering Committee > Adobe Solution Provider > > > Bienvenido Concepcion wrote: > > Matthew, > > > > Thanks so much for your input. I think you've sold me on the > > Apache/Tomcat solution. Although I like the appeal of Jetty, it seems > > to make a lot more sense in my situation to stick with Apache and proxy > > out to Tomcat, which is what I think I'm doing right now with my current > > Apache/Coldfusion setup. > > > > I'm trying to do this all by using the Amazon EC2 service as well - I've > > looked at a number of images out there using OpenBD but none seemed to > > have the setup I am looking for. > > > > -Bien > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Matthew Woodward <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Bien wrote: > > > > But how do I get it to handle my .htaccess files, > > which I use religiously for search-engine-friendly rewriting, and > > across multiple hosts? > > > > > > > > If you want to use your .htaccess files as you currently do with > > Apache (I'm assuming you're using Apache at any rate), then you'll > > need to keep using Apache. Tomcat has the concept of Realms which > > provide .htaccess-type functionality, and I'm sure Jetty has an > > equivalent. > > > > Tomcat and Jetty both have excellent web servers bundled with them, > > but the functionality is not identical to Apache. You can certainly > > accomplish what you're currently doing with .htaccess but > > specifically how you do it will be different. > > > > And even if you do use Apache with your .htaccess files, I'm not > > sure that they are automatically respected by your servlet > > container. Remember that at some point your web server is handing > > off work to your servlet container, so I would think if you're using > > mod_jk then your .htaccess files wouldn't get hit before things got > > handed off to the servlet container. > > > > I have a *feeling* that on the Tomcat/Jetty side an .htaccess file > > is just another file and wouldn't "mean" anything to them. So > > depending on your needs you can either use what's native in the > > servlet container to provide this functionality, or if you use > > Apache and proxy out to Tomcat or Jetty as opposed to using > > something like mod_jk, then you'd have more control over things on > > the Apache side. > > > > All rambling aside ;-), there's a way to accomplish anything you > > need to do one way or another, but you probably can't continue to do > > things exactly the way you are now. If I'm totally off-base I'm sure > > someone will jump in and set things straight. > > > > > > And can I easily use phpMyAdmin without having to install > > apache, and > > if not, am I really better off using Tomcat? > > > > > > > > You can use Jetty or Tomcat as a general web server, but to get it > > set up with PHP it would take a bit of configuration. > > > > Here's information about PHP on Jetty 5 (I didn't see an update in > > these instructinos for Jetty 6): > > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Jetty+and+PHP > > > > The stuff I did find on using PHP with Tomcat was much nastier than > > doing so with Jetty. > > > > Not to state the obvious, but of course since Tomcat and Jetty are > > primarily Java servlet containers, it's not surprising that rolling > > in PHP takes a bit of work. > > > > Ultimately if you do need PHP, want to keep using .htaccess files, > > etc. then your best bet is probably to keep using Apache since that > > will give you more flexibility when working with non-Java stuff. Or > > if all you need PHP for is phpMyAdmin, there are plenty of other > > MySQL tools available. > > > > Hope that helped more than it added to the confusion. ;-) > > > > -- > > Matt Woodward > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > http://www.mattwoodward.com/blog > > > > Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, > > PowerPoint, etc. as attachments. > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official site @ http://www.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
