Hi All, I've read the tomcat-apache howto at: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat/src/doc/tomcat-apache-howto. html (and also the users-guide, the mod_jk howto, the list archives etc etc.) I have installed: linux 2.2.14 ; apache 1.3.12 (mod_ssl & php4 & mod_so statically linked; mod_jk, etc etc dyn. linked); tomcat 3.2beta8 (milestone release) ; mod_jk compiled and installed QUESTION 1. When I run tomcat as 'nobody' as suggested in the above howto document, I was initially getting all sorts of problems with 'nobody' not having permission to write the log files etc, but with that all fixed, I now get the following jsp errors from tomcat on startup: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- cannot load servlet name: jsp cannot load servlet name: jsp cannot load servlet name: jsp -------------------------------------------------------------------------- but it doesn't seem to prevent the example jsp and servlets from working (once the log file permissions are fixed) ... what does it mean? When I run tomcat as 'root' these problems don't exist, and the jsp and servlet examples run fine. So, can you give me any hints as to what the problem might be? QUESTION 2. I have another server I wish to install this on, and it has about 3500 users (students) that will all be wanting to use servlets/jsp in their projects. They all get http://localhost/~username/ access to their pages, and also get cgi access through a global apache directive of : ScriptAliasMatch ^/([^/]+)-bin(.*) /home/$1/cgi-bin$2 which allows cgi's within their own ~username space. (seen as http://localhost/~username-bin/ and available in the file heirarchy as ~username/cgi-bin/ ) How do I go about giving them access to run servlets from their ~username space? eg: (seen as http://localhost/~username-servlet/ and available in their own home as ~username/servlet/ ??? ) It's not practical to create 3500 Context entries into the server.xml, one for each user, so how might I go about this? Also, How do I go about giving them access to run jsp from their username space? Is it as simple as adding a directive somewhere saying that all *.jsp files are redirected to the JVM? If so I must have mussed that in the documentation somewhere...? Thanks, David. P.S. These might be good questions to add to your original 'apache-tomcat' howto, or to a FAQ someplace, assuming you have an answer... ;-) -------------------------------------------------------------------- David Bussenschutt Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Computing Support Officer & Systems Administrator/Programmer Location: Griffith University. Information Technology Services Brisbane Qld. Aust. (TEN bldg. rm 1.33) Ph: (07)38757079 --------------------------------------------------------------------
