hey. i just went about installing tomcat-3.2.1 + apache-1.3.19 on a server for the first time - until now i've been relying on jserv and catalina in standalone mode. here are a few suggestions to make life easier for tomcat users: 1. the binary linux mod_jk.so on the web site doesn't work with blackdown jvm-1.3 and apache-1.3.19. you might document which jvm and apache version it is known to work with (along with whatever other variables are relevant - glibc maybe). you might also provide some precompiled dso's for other common jvm/apache combinations. 2. or you might just include the mod_jk source along with the binary distribution. 3. you might document explicitly in large bold letters that jakarta should not be run as root unless it's listening on a privileged port. 4. you might also document which directories and/or files in the tomcat distribution tree should be writable and/or owned by the user tomcat runs as and which should _not_ be writable by the tomcat user. i bet most people just chown -R tomcat.tomcat the distribution tree, but that's not a good strategy. you might also provide a script to chown the files properly. just my thoughts as a first-time installer. oh, and as far as catalina goes, i would have like to have helped beta test mod_webapp, but i couldn't find any documentation on how to configure it in apache. - donald
