-Chuck, I went ahead with your instructions running the Tomcat app under the ROOT context. Disabled the http web server (Apache) and edited the server.xml and server-minimal.xml files under Tomcat.
This time www.mydomain.com gives a "Page Load Error", I believe because there is no web server listening to port 80. I am not sure if by switching the web server component of Apache 2, I totally shut down all web server capability. But Tomcat is indicated as up and running. I am posting here the server.xml files just in case. Any further comments perhaps on this? Thanks for your help server.xml (commented out lines ommited) <Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN"> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener"/> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener"/> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener"/> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreConfigLifecycleListener"/> <GlobalNamingResources> <Environment name="simpleValue" type="java.lang.Integer" value="30"/> <Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container" type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase" description="User database that can be updated and saved" factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory" pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml"/> </GlobalNamingResources> <Service name="Catalina"> <Connector port="80" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75" enableLookups="false" redirectPort="9443" acceptCount="100" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true"/> <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost"> <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm" resourceName="UserDatabase"/> <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> </Host> </Engine> </Service> </Server> ---And the server-minimal.xml : <Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN"> - <GlobalNamingResources> <!-- Used by Manager webapp --> <Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container" type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase" description="User database that can be updated and saved" factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory" pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml"/> </GlobalNamingResources> - <Service name="Catalina"> <Connector port="80"/> - <!-- This is here for compatibility only, not required --> <!-- <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" /> --> - <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost"> <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm" resourceName="UserDatabase"/> <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"/> </Engine> </Service> </Server> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Dimitrios Christodoulakis<dimi....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been struggling for the past couple of weeks to redirect > external traffic from the Apache 2 server to Tomcat 5.5 on a godaddy > dedicated server. > > We have created a new domain on the server, which default public path > is /home/myadmin/public_html/ when someone points there browser to > www.mydomain.com > > At the same time I have uploaded and deployed the application under > usr/java/tomcat-5.5/webapps/mydomain/ > > As I understand at this time web content is served by the apache > server and not Tomcat. What I have been trying to do is to have all > pages static and dynamic be served by Tomcat. > > Godaddy offers limited support unless we buy into their assisted > service plan. I followed some steps they initially suggested which > involved creating a symbolic link between the default public directory > /home/myadmin/public_html/ and the application directory > usr/java/tomcat-5.5/webapps/mydomain/ by using the command: > > ln -s /usr/java/tomcat-5.5/webapps/mydomain/index.html > /home/myadmin/public_html > > With this I hoped all requests from www.mydomain.com going to > /home/myadmin/public_html would be automatically redirected to the > actual tomcat content starting with the deployed application's > index.html page. But unfortunately this does not work. I am always > returned the 404 error message. > > Is there a known or recommended way to resolve this issue? After some > searching I believe there are workarounds involving editing the > /usr/java/tomcat-5.5/conf/server.xml and the etc/httpd/conf/http.conf > files. Would it be possible someone to provide some general steps how > to do this? > > Many thanks for any practical help. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
