> Hi all, > I am getting ready to install Tomcat 4.x as on a test bed, and I am > wondering what is the usual and customary installation directory. /usr,
> /sbin, etc. Any comments appreciated - yes I am fairly new to Linux, > apache and a neonate with Tomcat. > Hi Bod, Is there a reason to use Tomcat 4.x? I would suggest to use Tomcat 5.x, Tomcat 5.5.12 being the last stable release. As for the installation directory, I use to install tomcat in /opt/jakarta but that's just a preference. By the way, Tomcat 5.5 is designed to run on J2SE 5.0 and later and uses the Eclipse JDT Java compiler for compiling JSP pages. This means that you no longer need to have the complete JDK to run Tomcat, a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is sufficient. You can download it from http://java.sun.com/j2se. I personnaly use the JRE in the form of RPM packages, not the self-extracting binary file (as a root: ./jre-1_5_0_<version>-linux-i586-rpm.bin) Remember also to set an environment variable named JAVA_HOME to the pathname of the directory into which you installed the JRE, in this case: /usr/java/jre1.5.0_05. To have it set globally, create the file profile.local in /etc and write: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_05 (or whatever folder used ) In tomcat 5.5.x, Tomcat's administration web application is no longer installed by default. Download and install the "admin" package to use it. If I'm not wrong, tomcat comes wit two connectors: before starting to configure mod_jk (or mod_proxy_ajp, depending of the version of the apache installed), verify that tomcat works by going to http://address_of_your_server:8080 To connect Tomcat to Apache, you need to use: 1 mod_jk, the Tomcat redirector module. The ajp13 protocol should be used, as it’s the only one known by Tomcat 4 and 5 2 Setup working entities, i.e Workers, between the apache and Tomcat engines using the mandatory workers.properties file (a Tomcat worker is a Tomcat instance that is waiting to execute servlets or any other content on behalf of some web server). Concrete steps are: 1 create the jk.conf file in /etc/apache2/conf.d (or wherever are your apache's configuration files) 2 create the workers.properties in /opt/jakarta/tomcat (change it to reflect your tomcat's installation folder) 3 Add the module "jk" to the list of apache2 modules. I let you read the doc at tomcat.apache.org for what to put into these files. Hope it helps, in my case it works Gaël
