"Nikolaos Giannopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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?
Addressing this one only, since Filip & Colin have pretty much covered the rest (except for the fact that Tomcat & Apache both come with a GUI installer for Windows). Tomcat 5.x (at least at the moment) ships with the *source* to build a daemon to allow Tomcat to run as non-root on *nix systems. If it proves popular, then at some point in the future there may be binaries available as well (at least for popular platforms). > > Thanks, > > --Nikolaos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
