I've answered some of my own questions, but not all.
Re: 1./
I began using the installer, but didn't find that it offered me much; it
didn't let me choose my preferred JVM. I resorted instead to the standard
"ZIP" file, which worked just fine. I'd still welcome more info. about it
though!
Re: 2./ mod_webapp
I found a few answers in RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-B7.txt as supplied with the
distribution. I still can't find any non-Linux distributions however, (I
require a Win32 binary). I can't find any detailed documention about it
(what is a warp connection? I've seen warp.jar in Tomcat, but I don't know
really what it does or how to use it)...
How else can I connect Tomcat 4.0 with an Apache server (1.3.20) ?
Re: 3./ NT Service
JavaService seems to work fine with Tomcat 4. There's no problem in using
it's supplied setup scripts (very easy).
Hope someone can reply to the outstanding questions. Hope my
comments/questions are of use to others too!
-Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "chris brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Tomcat 4.0-beta-7 Released
> A few questions about the downloads :
>
> 1./ Windows Installer version
> (I assume this is the .exe in the main download folder ; I would have
> expected it in the "bin" subfolder...). What does this file actually do?
I
> imagine that it unzips the files and installs Tomcat as a service (using
> jk_nt_service) -- am I correct so far? Does it do anything else, such as
> modify "httpd.conf" for Apache or any other server setup files (for IIS or
> whatever)?
>
> 2./ mod_webapp
> - Where's the Windows binary?! The only version I see is for Linux (at
> present).
> - Is this connecter "stable" code?
> - Is it only for Apache 2.0, or can it be used with 1.3.20, etc.?
> - Is there any documentation for mod_webapp (I don't know how to use
it...)?
> - What's the difference between mod_webapp and mod_jk anyway?!
>
> 3./ NT service
> I currently use JavaService, available from
> http://www.alexandriasc.com/software/JavaService/index.html, to run Tomcat
> 3.2.3 as a service. Is this still possible with Tomcat 4.0, or do I need
to
> use jk_nt_service ?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris B.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 8:01 AM
> Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Tomcat 4.0-beta-7 Released
>
>
> > A release candidate version of Tomcat 4.0, version "beta 7", has been
> > released. This version conforms to the Proposed Final Draft 3 version
of
> > the Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 specifications, which will go final soon,
and
> > incorporates all of the latest bugfixes.
> >
> > In addition, for users who run Tomcat 4.0 on Windows 9x, this release
> > fixes a security vulnerability that allows users to browse the directory
> > tree above the web application's context root by using request URIs
> > including three or more dots ("/..."). Users running on Win2K and Unix
> > systems are *not* susceptible to this vulneratibility.
> >
> > In addition, as with the previous version, an installer-based version of
> > Tomcat 4.0-beta-7 is available for Windows users, as well as native code
> > versions of the mod_webapp connector for Apache.
> >
> > Binary distributions are available at:
> >
> > http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.0-b7/
> >
> > Source distributions are available at:
> >
> >
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.0-b7/src/
> >
> > Craig McClanahan
> >
> >
>
