* Turner, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1208 17:08]: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rasputin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 5:41 AM > > To: Tomcat Users List > > Subject: Re: Apache-Tomcat HOWTO > > > > > > * Turner, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1201 14:01]: > > > > > > Not sure what JK2 needs to work, I don't use it. You > > should be able to > > > build it from the same source package as JK. I was able to > > do so on my Red > > > Hat test box, but it took quite a bit of hacking around. > > > > But you need a local install of Java; is that right? > > Not sure. I've used --with-java=${JAVA_HOME} when building the connectors, > and have also built them without it.
I tried a straight ./configure / ./build.conf.sh, and it complains about lack of a local JVM. So I think I'm stuck. > > although am I right in thinking a JkMount command can only > > forward URIs > > 'as-is'? i.e if I set > > > > JkMount /neotokyo/* lb > > then the request is going to be sent as a request to > > /neotokyo/whatever.jsp ... to the default host. > Not the defaultHost, but whatever Apache VirtualHost has the JkMount. If no > VirtualHost, than the value of Apache's global ServerName. Tomcat will try > and match that value with a corresponding Host element and go from there. > > And is the Host part of the protocol, so you can dedicate > > virtual hosts to AJP clients? I got around this by having a Tomcat virtual > > host with the DNS name of the Apache webserver, and setting it as the > > Engines default host - since no HTTP requests should come into tomcat asking for > > that host, it solves the problem but is pretty clanky. > As far as I know, there's no need to set defaultHost at all...if you needed > to do this, you could never have more than one virtual host, which is not > the case. Right - from what you say, the reason my setup above works is that my defaultHost happens to be set to the name of the virtual host in Apache - it's good to know I can still use tomcat vhosts with JK, I use them fairly heavily... Thanks ! -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
