newbie's question for Configuring Tomcat5 and Apache2 with Virtual Hosts using mod_jk

[strephon]

Hi, all

I'm so newbie on Debian box.
I have been following Popplewell's tutorial for configuring Apache and Tomcat with mod_jk.
As a newbie, a tiny problem can make me frustrated.
If anyone remember your newbie's sad memory, please help me.

I got errors while I tried to do following steps:

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root@myLinux:/usr/src/jakarta-tomcat-connectors-1.2.15-src/jk/native# ./buildconf.sh
rm autom4te.cache
libtoolize --force --automake --copy
./buildconf.sh: line 7: libtoolize: command not found
aclocal
./buildconf.sh: line 11: aclocal: command not found
autoheader
./buildconf.sh: line 13: autoheader: command not found
automake -a --foreign --copy
./buildconf.sh: line 15: automake: command not found
autoconf
./buildconf.sh: line 17: autoconf: command not found
rm autom4te.cache

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Can anyone help me out?
In order to create the custom configure file, what do I have to install on my Debian box before excuting "./buildconf.sh" ?

Popplewell's tutorial url is:
http://www.howtoforge.com/apache2_tomcat5_mod_jk_p2

Thank you in advance.

[falko]

Originally Posted by strephon

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root@myLinux:/usr/src/jakarta-tomcat-connectors-1.2.15-src/jk/native# ./buildconf.sh
rm autom4te.cache
libtoolize --force --automake --copy
./buildconf.sh: line 7: libtoolize: command not found
aclocal
./buildconf.sh: line 11: aclocal: command not found
autoheader
./buildconf.sh: line 13: autoheader: command not found
automake -a --foreign --copy
./buildconf.sh: line 15: automake: command not found
autoconf
./buildconf.sh: line 17: autoconf: command not found
rm autom4te.cache

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It seems as if you don't have any development tools installed. Please install at least gcc.

[strephon]

Thank you, Falko.

But I have installed gcc and other development tools.
Anyway, after I posted, I figured out.

After install apache2-threaded-dev package, there was no problem.

Thank you.

[daveyfx]

This is an excellent "how-to" - quite possibly the best one available.

As far as configuring Tomcat virtual hosts goes, is it possible to configure a "catch all" in the host field? This would be similar to the Apache <VirtualHost> directive in which one can create a wildcard in the domain, such as *.whatever.com to point to the same document base. Is such a configuration available for Tomcat?

[badbug]

Hi,

I'm not sure if anyone's still watching this thread but I'd really appreciate any help you can give me with this setup. I followed all the instructions yet any jsp or servlet requests hang. The Java process sits at about 80-100% CPU consumption so I know it's doing something but I can't find anything in the logs.

/usr/tomcat/default/conf/server.xml

<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">

  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" />
  <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreConfigLifecycleListener"/>

  <!-- Global JNDI resources -->
  <GlobalNamingResources>

    <!-- Test entry for demonstration purposes -->
    <Environment name="simpleValue" type="java.lang.Integer" value="30"/>

    <!-- Editable user database that can also be used by
         UserDatabaseRealm to authenticate users -->
    <Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container"
              type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
       description="User database that can be updated and saved"
           factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"
          pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml" />

  </GlobalNamingResources>


  <!-- Define the Tomcat Stand-Alone Service -->
  <Service name="Catalina">

    <!-- A "Connector" represents an endpoint by which requests are received
         and responses are returned.  Each Connector passes requests on to the
         associated "Container" (normally an Engine) for processing.
    -->

    <!-- Define a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 2117 (default 8080) -->
    <Connector port="2117" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
               maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="5" maxSpareThreads="75"
               enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100"
               connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" />


    <!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 -->
    <Connector port="8009"
               enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" protocol="AJP/1.3" />

    <!-- Define a Proxied HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8082 -->
    <!-- See proxy documentation for more information about using this. -->
    <!--
    <Connector port="8082"
               maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
               enableLookups="false" acceptCount="100" connectionTimeout="20000"
               proxyPort="80" disableUploadTimeout="true" />
    -->

    <!-- An Engine represents the entry point (within Catalina) that processes
         every request.  The Engine implementation for Tomcat stand alone
         analyzes the HTTP headers included with the request, and passes them
         on to the appropriate Host (virtual host). -->

    <!-- Define the top level container in our container hierarchy -->
    <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">

      <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"
             resourceName="UserDatabase"/>

      <!-- Define the default virtual host -->

      <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
       unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
       xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">

        <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
                 directory="logs"  prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
                 pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/>
      </Host>

      <!-- www.domain1.com -->
      <Host name="www.maskeddom.co.uk" appBase="/var/www/maskeddom/htdocs"
        unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">

        <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
                 directory="/var/www/maskeddom/logs"  prefix="maskeddom_access_log." suffix=".txt"
                 pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/>
      </Host>

      <Listener className="org.apache.jk.config.ApacheConfig"
                 modJk="/usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_jk.so"
                 workersConfig="/etc/apache2/workers.properties"/>

    </Engine>

  </Service>

</Server>

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default

NameVirtualHost 123.45.67.89
<VirtualHost www.maskeddom.co.uk>
        ServerAdmin niall@maskeddom.co.uk
        ServerName www.maskeddom.co.uk
        ServerAlias maskeddom.co.uk

        DirectoryIndex index.shtml
        DocumentRoot /var/www/maskeddom/htdocs

        <Directory /var/www/maskeddom/htdocs>
                Options +Includes -Indexes
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
                AddType text/html .shtml
                AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog /var/www/maskeddom/logs/error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog /var/www/maskeddom/logs/access.log combined
        ServerSignature On


    # Forward servlets
    JkMount /*/servlet/* worker1

    # Forward JSPs
    JkMount /*.jsp worker1

</VirtualHost>

The other files I think are OK. Is there something here that's messing things up? Let me know if you need other files.

I have changed the real public IP to 123.45.67.89 and the domain name to maskeddom.co.uk

Thanks,

Niall

[badbug]

Hi,

I've been playing around with the server since my post and I've managed to get things working. I toyed around with the apache2 virtualhosts and restarted the java services and things seem to be ok now.

Thanks anyways,

Niall