Please reply - this is an important change ! I would like to add another configuration mechanism for jk2. If people agree, this should be the default.
Assumptions: - All webapplication that will be served must be deployed on the machine running the web server ( otherwise the server can't find the static files ) - It is possible you run a load-balanced server and you may ( or not ) have tomcats on the server machine. - Minimal user configuration for 'simple' case. Advanced users will still have full power to override. Details: Via workers.properties ( or httpd.conf ) we'llspecify the path to webapps/ directory ( one or many ) and the 'style' ( flat or vhost ). mod_jk will use the same logic as tomcat to find all subdirs, and automatically add the contexts. ( using 'global' mappings ) In addition, for each webapplication jk will check [appbase]/WEB-INF/jkmappings.properties If the file exists, it'll contain per/webapp mappings ( without the context prefix ) == an easy to parse form of what's in web.xml. In addition, [appbase]/WEB-INF/jk.workers will include the list with all tomcat instances where the webapp is running. If none is found, the default worker will be used. Note: 1. if WEB-INF/jk.workers contains a single worker, we'll have the current effect of JkMount 2. If it has multiple workers, it'll be load balanced, as if a lb worker would have been defined and the app would be mapped to that worker. Benefits: - Simple things are simple. After the initial configuration of apache ( consisting of a LoadModule and pointing to the path to tomcat -- which can be fixed for RPMs or installed case ), the user will not have to do anything else but soft-restart the web server. - Keep application config separated. - The use can still override whatever he wants ( using explicit configs ) or place apps in different directories. - no need to have tomcat running ( or running on the server machine ) ( this will be used in addition to ajp14 autoconf ) Costin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
