-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dale,
BuildSmart wrote: > Yes, for the purpose of my project I then added a native debug interface > and significant amount of debugging features so that I could walk an > entire transaction from start to finish and see what's going on and to > change the expected behavior my modification of the transaction and the > environment variables. Did you modify the native mod_jk module for Apache httpd or did you modify the Java-based connector in Tomcat? If the former, would you care to share some of your work with the mod_jk folks? > It is my intention with the help of this module to create a new module > that will allow execution from the apache document root rather than > deployed from within Tomcat. I'm not sure I get it... you want to run Tomcat from inside Apache's DocumentRoot? What's stopping you from doing that, now (aside from the fact that it's not a very good idea)? > I have another version that doesn't use the workers.properties file workers.properties is not necessary with mod_jk: you can use directives to set up everything if you wish. > and > a modified Ajp13Servlet class to allow serving the scripts from apache > 1.3.33 virtualhost document roots and it does work with basic scripts > that I have been testing with which brings me to the point where I am no > longer serving the pages from within Tomcat, only making the deployment > environment native to apache. I think I still don't get it. What scripts are you talking about? JSPs? > What I have so far is the following, a smithcf-1.3b4.war in Tomcat 4.1, > apache serving java and coldfusion scripts from the apache virtualhost > document roots but using the war to compile and process the scripts as > if they were native to the war by environment modification. Aah... you are using Tomcat in the same way that mod_php (for instance) handles PHP pages by handing-off processing to the php binary. Interesting. Sort of a "mod_java". How do you handle JSPs that require support libraries? Or those that use includes? > It's kinda like enabling php in apache 1.3.33, I can add my .jsp and > .cfm scripts to the virtualhost document roots and they work just like > adding .php scripts. I think you might run into problems when the JSPs require more support, or if you want to run servlets. Perhaps you don't care about those situations (because you can always use full-blown Tomcat with webapps, etc.). > Actually, I haven't done anything special to the Tomcat configuration > except to enable ajp13 on localhost only on port 8079 and for it to > listen on localhost only on port 9079 and the war never physically sees > any of the scripts. Do you mean that the WAR file does not /contain/ any scripts, or that no code deployed in the WAR file processes the scripts? I would imagine that you'd have to load and process the scripts in order to evaluate them and produce content... > Currently I've dropped Tomcat to work with jetty 6.1.5 without any > special modification aside from adding a custom jar file with my extra > servlet classes in attempt to achieve the same results so that my module > will work with any deployment method by the inclusion of these > additional classes. Jetty might actually offer a better target because (last I checked, don't flame me if I'm wrong) Jetty only supports one deployed webapp per instance, and you don't need the ability to deploy more than one webapp, so you can save yourself a lot of complexity: you get a leaner, meaner script processing machine. > When I get it refined enough to offer a public release I'll > post something to this list since I know that others would like to > achieve the same results of configuring Tomcat for one virtualhost and > forget it (so you can gain access to the deployment environment) and > then they only have to work with the apache virtualhosts and the scripts > reside within the apache virtualhosts making deployment that much > cleaner and easier to manage. Interesting. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHGRw29CaO5/Lv0PARAhMTAJ9oxN1z09uBFmJ+5Ukb3pBprwwj6gCdFMQJ ArbvG2jww1Dav9lCyFVQntc= =VYBX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
