i have read all the documentation on workers and isapi_redirect.dll and the minimal user guide and i still don't understand how to get tomcat to run multiple instances. here is what i have: tomcat 3.2.1 win2k sp1 iis 5.0(the one that comes with win2k) isapi_redirect.dll so far i have been able to set up webSiteA (it lives in d:\inetpub\webSiteA.) so that iis serves everything except *.jsp. i did that by installing tomcat in d:\inetpub\tomcat and making a context in server.xml that looks like this: <Context path="/" docBase="d:\inetpub\webSiteA" crossContext="false" debug="0" reloadable="true" > </Context> and adding the following lines to the uriworkermap.properties: /*.jsp=ajp12 /servlet/*=ajp12 eveything else is the default configuration. so i have something that works and i am pretty sure that i don't know why it works....i can't seem to make all the connections needed to make tomcat tun multiple times, once for each web site that i have on the machine. that way if i need to reload classes for one of them, tomcat does not have to reload for all of them..... thanks. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com