Hi Andrew
Tomcat is not a 'general purpose' web server - rather, it is a 'Java web
application' server and is specifically designed to support a number of
standards for serving Java web-based applications (eg, the 'servlet
spec'). If you need to run a 'mixed' set of web applications, including
static (.htm or .html) pages and PHP and CGI scripts you should probably
consider running both the Apache HTTP server and Tomcat together. I've
had quite a lot of success with this, but its not exactly trivial to setup.
See http://httpd.apache.org/ for more details on the Apache server.
See the http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/ page for more
information on linking Tomcat to Apache.
You can combine Apache and Tomcat with the mod_jk connector, which means
that when you can configure the system to pass Java specific requests to
Tomcat and serve PHP and CGI with Apache.
Although it is possible to serve static HTML pages with Tomcat such as
you can create with Dreamweaver etc, it certainly doesn't offer the
ability to serve PHP content except as CGI. You can see
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/cgi-howto.html for how to serve
CGI with Tomcat. You *could* use a command line PHP script as a CGI
program but frankly it's not a very good way to do it.
To recap - if you want to serve Java, PHP and other CGI (say PERL) then
use Apache as the front end and Tomcat for the Java side of things. If
you don't need to serve Java applications at all, then you probably
don't need Tomcat!
Regards
Alan Chaney
Andrew E. Davidson wrote:
Hello
Does anyone one know how I can run normal web sites on Tomcat? By normal I
mean sites that are produced using a tool like Microsoft's front page, or
Dream weaver. The web masters of these sites want to publish their site
changes using FTP. They do not have the ability to create WAR files.
Does anyone know what I would have to do to run a web site that was
implemented using PHP or CGI scripts?
Thanks
Andy
p.s. I did not find anything about this topic on the documentation, FAQ's,
or Tomcat reference books I have purchased
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