Hi, I am setting up a server for my class and the jsp pages won't parse. the site is net104.zapto.org if anybody can help i would really appreciate it. i am running apache2 and tomcat. i think the problem might be with the tomcat configuration. i don't know how to do it.

Hi,

I can successfully setup CentOS+Apache+Tomcat+modjk. Check it out.

rpm -ivh pcre-devel-4.5-3.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh apr-devel-0.9.4-24.1.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh apr-util-devel-0.9.4-17.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh httpd-devel-2.0.52-9.ent.i386.rpm
rpm -e java-1.4.2-gcj-compat
rpm -e gcc-java
Install jdk
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chmod +x jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586-rpm.bin
./jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586-rpm.bin
cd /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_08
ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_08 /usr/java/jdk
Install Tomcat
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#create Tomcat Account
groupadd tomcat
useradd -g tomcat tomcat
cd /usr/local
tar xzf apache-tomcat-5.5.17.tar.gz
ln -s apache-tomcat-5.5.17 tomcat5
cd /usr/local
chown -R tomcat.root /usr/local/tomcat5
chown -R tomcat.root /usr/local/apache-tomcat-5.5.17
set env var
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vi /etc/profile
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk
export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat5
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jdk/bin
logout
start tomcat
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/usr/local/tomcat5/bin/startup.sh
Installing the Connector
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rpm -q libtool automake autoconf
tar xfz tomcat-connectors-1.2.18-src.tar.gz
cd /usr/local/tomcat-connectors-1.2.18-src/native
./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs
make
cd apache-2.0
cp mod_jk.so /etc/httpd/modules/
vi /usr/local/tomcat5/conf/server.xml
#Locate the closing tag for the engine element: <\engine> and add the following just before the close
tag:
#note: run outside from /usr/local/tomcat5/conf/ dir
/usr/local/tomcat5/bin/shutdown.sh
/usr/local/tomcat5/bin/startup.sh
#verify the existance of /usr/local/tomcat5/conf/auto/mod_jk.conf file
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Include /usr/local/tomcat5/conf/auto/mod_jk.conf
service httpd restart

cool, ill try to change this to debian thats what im using thanks