I'm trying to set up Struts on a virtual hosting site and have been
having a friendly debate with my ISP on the correct way to have .do
files work when running Tomcat with Apache. I'm using mod_jk at home and
have JkMount /struts-example/*.do ajp12 set up and .do files are handled
properly. On my hosting site my ISP feels I should be able to modify the
web.xml file to map .do files without having to include either a handler
for mod_jserv or a JkMount for mod_jk even though they are running
Tomcat with Apache.
I understand I need the web.xml mapping which is already set up in the
struts-example web.xml file but isn't it true that unless Apache knows
to pass a file with a .do extension to Tomcat it will never get to the
point of checking the mapping in the web.xml file. That is the behavior
I am seeing and I would appreciate if someone could correct me on this
if I'm mistaken or please provide confirmation that I can take back to
my ISP and get this resolved. If there is a way to access .do files
without modifying the Apache conf file I would love to hear how to do
it. TIA.
Rick
