We have a product that utilizes servlets that we will be making available for download.
The problem is that we can't expect that our target customers will have Apache + Tomcat or Tomcat (standalone) installed. What we want to do however is to provide a set of simplified (if possible minimal) instructions for installing Apache + Tomcat (ideally we would want to automate this through a script if possible). Is there a simplified procedure for installing these two components - by simplified I mean that building from source is probably not going to go over well with the Windows oriented target customers unless we automate the process. Our target platforms are Windows NT/2000/XP, RedHat 6/7, and Solaris 7/8/9. Our (specific) product installation is quite trivial - we just want to make sure that a burdensome installation of the web server / servlet engine doesn't turn customers away before they even get to our product install. Any ideas? Suggestions? We would suggest a stand alone install of Tomcat 4.X except that (a) there seems to be no way to have it run on port 80 as nobody (without front ending Apache) and (b) our product tries to minimize the work done in servlets and is designed to leverage the web server to serve the appropriate content (whose URL it returns) - unless Tomcat 4.X becomes more solid as a stand alone web server we have to offer this option. Will Tomcat 5.X will make these stand aline issues moot? Thanks, --Nikolaos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
