I'm having trouble trying to get Apache to recognize my deployment descriptor (web.xml) on both win98 and Unix (Solaris v5.7). I'm running Apache 1.3.20 and Tomcat 3.20 on both. For example the SUN Java servlet tutorial application bookstore.war doesn't work the way I want. This application unwars into <TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps/bookstore just fine. I can access the bookstore application just as I'd expect and want under tomcat using the URL: http://hostname:8080/bookstore/enter However, on the same machine the following URL doesn't work going through Apache and gives a 404 error. http://hostname/bookstore/enter When trying this URL on my Win98SE machine, the Apache error log shows: [Thu Jun 28 18:34:54 2001] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: c:/program files/apache group/apache/htdocs/bookstore/Enter I get essentially the same response on the Unix system, with the "Enter" replaced with "enter" and looking something like: /opt/httpd/htdocs/bookstore/enter The Deployment Descriptor (aka web.xml) portion for the application typically looks like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd";> <web-app> <servlet> <servlet-name>enter</servlet-name> <servlet-class>BookStoreServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> o o o <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>enter</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/enter</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> o o o </web-app> I've spent the last week looking through the mailing list archives and trying to hack something that worked without luck. (That thing on Solaris about moving or linking the JDK tools.jar to the <TOMCAT_HOME>/lib directory was very annoying.) The only thing I've been able to come up with is to copy the mod_jk.conf-auto file to my mod_jk.conf and include this file in httpd.conf. Hopefully, this is not the answer since I'd have to modify this file for each context I add and consider the question "what's the purpose of mod_jk"). I've seen many discussions on similar problems but nothing seems to work. This seems to be a common area of confusion and frustration with the Tomacat Apache marriage. I've given up on anything fancy, I'd settle on anything that will re-direct anything to given directories to tomcat. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to get this simple "mapping" to work? I've also noticed all the connections seem to be via Ajp12 rather than the more efficient Ajp13 protocol. I've modified the server.xml file to include the Ajp13 Connector. How do I force all connections to Ajp13 and forget Ajp12? Granted, I need to leave the Ajp12 protocol enabled as a connector to allow shutting down tomcat. I'm rather panic'ed for an answer since I convinced our customer that Oracle 9iAS using Jserv was not what we wanted to use. Help and TIA -joe-
