http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/faq/
-Tim
Tim Stewart wrote:
First let me say sorry for lurking and responding to this message 5 days late. I think your suggestions are very good. I also recently went through hell trying to get mod_jk2 setup in IIS then Apache and have some suggestions for the docs. Is there anyway we can setup a WIKI for mod_jk2, that way people who have suggestions for documentation can just add it?
Do WIKIs exist in the ASF?
Tim
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Savard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Minimal HOWTO for jk2 2.0.4 - Was: [Fwd: Releasing JK
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--- Guenter Knauf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <<other content deleted>>
I would like to see some feedback from those admins who have to install the connectors what
they would
prefer.
A quick start covering: - What to download - What to compile - Compatible Apache versions - Which folder to copy files into - What entries does Apache expect - What workers and MPM are and how we can configure them
thanks, Guenter.
-- Sriram
Well, given my recent trauma, oups experience, setting up mod_jk2, may I suggest a few things?
- A working configure script. Let me explain what I expect from a configure script. It should check all requirements are met including proper versions and not require more than necessary (for example, if Berkley BD version 2.5 and up is fine, do not insist on version 4.0 because it may have some cascading effect on my system and if not necessary, why should someone insist I upgrade 50% of the packages on the system?)
- Working Makefiles. This is a side effect of a working configure script. Given proper checking and identification of the system, the proper Makefiles should be build. This include the appropriate list of libraries I should link to in order to have working modules. To make things clear, I should never get undefined symbols at runtime because the Makefile never specified a complete list of libraries required to resolve all the symbols in my module and the module has no hint on where it should look for the undefined symbols to get them resolved. The sysadmin is not supposed to be a developper (even if it happens it's not always true) and don't expect him to manually edit the Makefile to make it working with his system. If the configure cannot find the libraries, it means they are not installed or the user didn't specified the correct options to configure (library paths, if any) and it should be catch at the configure step, not at runtime.
- A comprehensive guide of the configuration options (properties), not necessarily something lengthy, but enough to figure out what is the purpose of each configuration option and how it is used.
- Don't make any RPMS available if it is not possible to guarantee they will provide a working system. Instead, with limited man-power and time, I think it will be a better move to invest in a clean, documented, straight forward building process with consistent results.
This should reduce drastically the number of redundant questions on the Tomcat-user mailing list (including mines).
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