On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Nick, > > On 7/29/13 8:59 AM, Nick Williams wrote: >> On Jul 25, 2013, at 10:59 AM, Rainer Jung wrote: >> >>> On 25.07.2013 17:14, srinivas yelamanchili wrote: >>>> Hi, I installed Apache Httpd 2.4.6 and Tomcat 7.0.42 from >>>> source code (.tar.gz) on Redhat Linux and looking for >>>> documentation to enable AJP and connect Tomcat with Httpd using >>>> AJP/APR >>>> >>>> I have the following questions (and please let me know where I >>>> can post the same if this email group is the not the correct >>>> place) : >>>> >>>> 1. The 'Tomcat Connectors JK 1.2' Binary Releases at >>>> http://tomcat.apache.org/download-connectors.cgi >>>> >>>> only seem to be available for Windows (and not for Redhat >>>> Linux). Aren't there any binary releases for unix based >>>> systems? >>> >>> They are very easy to build on Linux. Since there are so many >>> distributions we currently do not provide "official" binaries. >> >> Slightly off-topic question: is this a resources limitation (y'all >> don't have access to a build server with different agents running >> on different distros) or a time limitation (y'all don't have >> someone who can spend the time maintaining the builds)? > > The ASF generally doesn't provide binaries for stuff. For instance, go > to httpd.apache.org and try to download a binary. Other than win32 and > Netware, it's source-only. > > The Java world has the luxury of being bytecode-compatible so "binaries" > are made available for lots of Java-related projects (and these days, > most code available through the ASF is Java-based). > >> If it's a resources limitation, I have a publicly-accessible >> TeamCity server with an unlimited OpenSource license hosting >> Windows 7, Mac OS X SLeopard/Lion/MLion, Debian, RedHat, and SuSE >> agents that I would be happy to donate some resources from. It's >> not very busy and would have plenty of time to run CI, SNAPSHOT, >> and RC builds for all of the platforms. > > No, the problem is that there are so many different combinations of > platform, environment, etc. that it would represent an explosion of > options that would never meet everyone's needs. > > Building mod_jk just isn't that difficult. The only legitimate > complaint that I have heard is that most responsible admins don't have > a build chain available on a production server. We solve that by > building on a test server and pushing the binaries out to our > production servers. Others may do other things. > > I do know that Debian-based distros of Linux can install the > "libapache2-mod-jk" package, though it is often out-of-date with > respect to the currently-available version. Inexplicably, Red Hat does > not provide mod_jk binaries through their package manager. I'm not > sure about Suse and others.
Understood. I don't know about others, but SuSE DOES provide mod_jk in their package manager. That's how I installed it. Even so, it's rarely even close to up-to-date. Usually about a year or two behind. Nick --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
