On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:49 PM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:

> François Gravel wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>> I'm a newbie trying my hand at setting up a local PHP and Java development
>> environment.  I use a laptop with Windows XP SP3.
>>
>> Both service are running fine locally, after install.  I will describe
>> what
>> I did as I followed the procedure to have mod_jk handle the communication
>> between them (from
>> http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/webserver_howto/apache.html).  I
>> got
>> the binary for Windows (mod_jk-1.2.28-httpd-2.2.3.so).
>>
>> Then I created a workers.properties file which I placed in a folder I
>> created at $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/jk; the file content is:
>> worker.list=worker1
>> worker.worker1.type=ajp13
>> worker.worker1.host=localhost
>> worker.worker1.port=8009
>>
>
> So far, so good.
>
>>
>> I copied the file mod_jk-1.2.28-httpd-2.2.3.so to $HTTPD_HOME/modules and
>> renamed it mod_jk.so.  It was suggested at this point to also modify
>> Apache's httpd.conf file.  I imagine that meant to add a line to have the
>> module loaded by Apache (I added "LoadModule mod_jk modules/mod_jk.so").
>>
>
> That's wrong, and probably the cause of the following messages.
> It should be :
> LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so


Ah.  My mistake.  Done.


>
>
>   Doing this, however, leads to an intriguing message if you try to test
>> the
>> configuration: "Can't locate API module structure 'mod_jk' in file
>> $HTTPD_HOME/modules/mod_jk.so: No error."  Is it an error or not, I'm not
>> sure, but since I'm not done with the procedure, I keep going.
>>
>>  Rectify the above, and then try again.  There may be other problems, but
> solve that one first.


You are right, the above correction solved this.  I did run into a few other
minor issues afterwards, which I solved.


>
>
>  I then went through the steps to use Tomcat to auto-configure.
>>
>
> As far as I remember, that is not a very good idea either anymore.  I think
> I remember Rainer admitting that the mod_jk auto-configuration was somewhat
> broken.
>
>  So I've
>
>> added the line "Include $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/jk/mod_jk.conf-auto" to the
>> file $HTTPD_HOME/conf/httpd.conf.
>>
>> I also added the listener by way of the line "<Listener
>> className="org.apache.jk.config.ApacheConfig" modJk="/path/to/mod_jk.so"
>> />"
>> in the file $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml.
>>
>> Then I re-started Tomcat to generate mod_jk.conf-auto: it is of note to
>> specify that the name of the file is "mod_jk.conf" and not
>> "mod_jk.conf-auto".
>>
>> Finally, I modified the Apache webserver configuration file
>> $HTTPD_HOME/conf/httpd.conf to include the simple configuration example.
>>
>> The end result being a failure to start the Apache 2.2 server: testing the
>> configuration reveals the same error listed above: "Can't locate API
>> module
>> structure 'mod_jk' in file $HTTPD_HOME/modules/mod_jk.so: No error."
>>
>> Please, I've spent hours getting to this point, but I have no idea how to
>> get around this error.  Thank you,
>>
>>
> See above.
>
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