Thanks David Andy
-----Original Message----- From: David Kerber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 5:36 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: how can I run normal web sites using Tomcat? My stuff is 90% java and jsp, with only a few static resources. Where should I put them in the Tomcat structure? Do they go under the appropriate spot in /webapps? Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote: > the setup can be trivial, if you pair one apache to one tomcat, and > use mod_proxy. > you should be up and running fairly quickly. > Filip > > > Alan Chaney wrote: > >> Hi Andrew >> >> Tomcat is not a 'general purpose' web server - rather, it is a 'Java >> web application' server and is specifically designed to support a >> number of >> standards for serving Java web-based applications (eg, the 'servlet >> spec'). If you need to run a 'mixed' set of web applications, >> including static (.htm or .html) pages and PHP and CGI scripts you >> should probably consider running both the Apache HTTP server and >> Tomcat together. I've had quite a lot of success with this, but its >> not exactly trivial to setup. >> >> See http://httpd.apache.org/ for more details on the Apache server. >> >> See the http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/ page for more >> information on linking Tomcat to Apache. >> >> You can combine Apache and Tomcat with the mod_jk connector, which >> means that when you can configure the system to pass Java specific >> requests to Tomcat and serve PHP and CGI with Apache. >> >> Although it is possible to serve static HTML pages with Tomcat such >> as you can create with Dreamweaver etc, it certainly doesn't offer >> the ability to serve PHP content except as CGI. You can see >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/cgi-howto.html for how to >> serve CGI with Tomcat. You *could* use a command line PHP script as a >> CGI program but frankly it's not a very good way to do it. >> >> To recap - if you want to serve Java, PHP and other CGI (say PERL) >> then use Apache as the front end and Tomcat for the Java side of >> things. If you don't need to serve Java applications at all, then you >> probably don't need Tomcat! >> >> >> Regards >> >> Alan Chaney >> >> >> Andrew E. Davidson wrote: >> >>> Hello >>> >>> >>> >>> Does anyone one know how I can run normal web sites on Tomcat? By >>> normal I >>> mean sites that are produced using a tool like Microsoft's front >>> page, or >>> Dream weaver. The web masters of these sites want to publish their site >>> changes using FTP. They do not have the ability to create WAR files. >>> >>> >>> >>> Does anyone know what I would have to do to run a web site that was >>> implemented using PHP or CGI scripts? >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> >>> >>> p.s. I did not find anything about this topic on the documentation, >>> FAQ's, >>> or Tomcat reference books I have purchased >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
