Thanks for that Costin ... however ... i am on a new server ... everyone has been raving about the Apple so i am moving up to that! :)
With respect to the mod_jk library ... whats the difference with this and mod_jserv? Also ... if i use that method ... does all the .properties files that were with JServ of yore, come back into action again? thanks a ||| -----Original Message----- ||| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ||| Sent: 01 April 2002 18:43 ||| To: Tomcat Users List ||| Subject: Re: Mapping *.abc requests to Tomcat ||| ||| ||| ||| First question - with tomcat3.x, are you still using ||| mod_jserv ? If it ||| worked before with jserv, it should still work with the ||| exactly same ||| apache config and module as before, assuming you have a 'recent' ||| mod_jserv ( i.e. 1..2 years old - but I think '99 would work too ). ||| Just replace the java jserv with tomcat. ||| ||| If you use mod_jk - the same apache settings and module ||| will work with ||| both tomcat3.x and 4.x. You probably need ||| ||| JkMount *.abc WORKER_NAME ||| ( where WORKER_NAME is typically ajp13 or whatever you define in ||| workers.properties ) ||| ||| Costin ||| ||| ||| On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Alan Williamson wrote: ||| ||| > After much buggering around with Tomcat4.0 we could only ||| get it to process ||| > all files; ie the main ApacheWebServer was taken out of ||| the loop and was not ||| > even doing the static files such as images etc. Read ||| somewhere on Google, ||| > that Tomcat4.0 couldn't do this just yet, but move down ||| to Tomcat3. To ||| > which we did. ||| > ||| > Moved down to Tomcat3.0. Modified the ||| {tomcat}/conf/web.xml and added in ||| > our mappings ... but this never made a difference. Our ||| servlet is to load ||| > at startup and nothing. It wouldn't load for ||| love'nor'money. So we moved ||| > it to {tomcat}/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml and it loaded ||| there with no ||| > problems. However still doesn't get hit. ||| > ||| > Here is the relevant section from Apache's httpd.conf: ||| > ||| > --] httpd.conf -------- ||| > ApJservManual on ||| > ApJServDefaultProtocol ajpv12 ||| > ApJServSecretKey DISABLED ||| > ApJServMountCopy on ||| > ApJServLogLevel info ||| > ApJservDefaultPort 9007 ||| > AddType text/abc .abc ||| > AddHandler jserv-servlet .abc ||| > ApJServLogFile /tmp/mod_jserv.log ||| > ------------------------- ||| > ||| > I have attempted adding [ApServMount / /root] but that ||| doesn't seem to make ||| > a different, except our ABC files are sent back to us as ||| plain text! ||| > ||| > --] server.xml----------- ||| > ||| > <Host name="www2.myhost.org"> ||| > <Context path="" ||| > docBase="/home/webroot/www2.myhost.org" ||| > reloadable="false" ||| > debug="1" /> ||| > </Host> ||| > ------------------------- ||| > ||| > So ... the question's are: ||| > ||| > Q1. I feel so close ... but no cigar. What am i missing? ||| > ||| > Q2. Should {tomcat}/conf/web.xml be getting read? ||| > ||| > Q3. How do i setup Tomcat 3 (or 4) so that .abc are ||| processed across all ||| > VH's and across all directories. ||| > ||| > ||| > thank you very much, ||| > ||| > alan ||| > ||| > ||| > -- ||| > To unsubscribe: ||| <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ||| > For additional commands: ||| <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ||| > Troubles with the list: ||| <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ||| > ||| > ||| ||| ||| -- ||| To unsubscribe: ||| <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ||| For additional commands: ||| <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ||| Troubles with the list: ||| <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ||| -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
