Thanks,

As it turned out I ignored the dependency and installed. What I note is that
RPMs are very useful in determining your dependencies. It listed a bunch of
rpms I needed, I sought them out and now have the dependencies for being
able to build connectors for Apache 1.3 (not that I need them, I am
concentrating on 2.0 at the mo. although would be happy with any version
that actually worked), I was missing apxs for 1.3 before when I built the
connectors from source.

But it does not replace you config files, so I still have exactly the same
errors I had before, see my other email from an hour ago. It does give me
some assurance that it was not my build of the connectors that caused the
problem. So it must be the config, if only I could see what is wrong with
the config!

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Turner, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 27 September 2002 16:37
To: 'Tomcat Users List'
Subject: RE: New Release JK 1.2.0 not installing



All due respect to the RPM managers, but I honestly, truly feel that you can
get up and running much quicker without using RPMs, and just using the
Tomcat binary install and a connector binary.  I'm not bragging, but I can
do a Tomcat+connector install on RedHat now almost quicker than an RPM could
do it...it's that easy.  Tomcat is so self-contained, I find it difficult to
understand the need for an RPM at all, unless it is because the RPM creates
a new user (tomcat4) and adds some startup scripts to /etc/init.d (does it
even do that much?).

Try a binary install of Tomcat, not an RPM.  Here are the steps, on any
Linux:

- download Tomcat
- unpack Tomcat
- symlink /usr/local/tomcat to /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-some-version
- set CATALINA_HOME (or is it TOMCAT_HOME now in 4.1.12?)
- make sure JAVA_HOME is set
- stick the mod_jk binary in /path/to/apache/modules
- edit httpd.conf with JK directives or use auto-conf
- start Tomcat
- start Apache

It's essentially fool-proof, in my experience, anyway.  I have no experience
with Mandrake, but I can't see how it would break a binary install.  Note
that the steps above have Tomcat running as root, and that adding
start-on-boot scripts to /etc/init.d has to be done manually.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Wynter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 11:27 AM
> To: 'Tomcat Users List'
> Subject: New Release JK 1.2.0 not installing
>
>
> Hi,
>
> In desperation at not having a working setup and problems
> with mod_jk I
> thought it cannot get worse and may even get better if I
> install the latest
> release from RPM (what luxury not having to build it!).
> Anyway it tells me
> that I need Apache 2.0.42. If I run "
> /usr/local/apache2/apachectl status"
> it tells me I DO have 2.0.42. So how do I get PAckage Manager
> to detect that
> it is 2.0.42? What mechanism does it use to determine what version is
> installed?
>
> Mandrake 8.2 distro
>
> Thanks
>
> David Wynter
> Director
> roamware Ltd.
> (+44) (0) 208 922 7539 B.
> (+44) (0) 7879 605 706 M.
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>
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