Tomcat 5.5.17, with mod_jk on Windows January 7, 2008

Requirements

• Java 1.5 JDK (SDK)
• Apache 2.0
• mod_jk 1.2

Download

• Java 1.5 JDK — Select JDK 5.0 Update 7
  • Select – Windows Offline Installation – file jdk-1_5_0_07-windows-i586-p.exe
• Tomcat 5.5.17 — Select Binary Distribution, Core: apache-tomcat-5.5.17.tar.gz
• mod_jk 1.2.18 — Download file mod_jk-apache-2.x.xx.so

Configuration

• Java JDK path : C:\jdk1.5.0_07
• Apache path : C:\www\Apache2
• Tomcat path : C:\www\tomcat5
• Apache’s webroot : C:\www\webroot
• JSP/Servlet webroot (via Apache2/mod_jk) : C:\www\tomcat5\webapps
• JSP/Servlet webroot (via native Tomcat server, port 8080) : C:\www\tomcat5\webapps
• Access JSP/Servlet pages via Apache2/mod_jk : http://localhost/[jkmount-mapped url of your webapp]
• Access native Tomcat server : http://localhost:8080/

Unpack and place Tomcat5 and mod_jk

• Unpack file apache-tomcat-5.5.17.tar.gz under directory C:\www
• Rename directory C:\www\apache-tomcat-5.5.17 to C:\www\tomcat5
• Rename file mod_jk-apache-2.x.xx.so to mod_jk.so, and place under directory C:\www\Apache2\modules

Configuration and Setup

• Set Environmental Variables : JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk1.5.0_07 and CATALINA_HOME=C:\www\tomcat5
  • Set variables under Start » Settings » Control Panel » System » Advanced » Environment Variables » System variables » New…
• Create empty file C:\www\Apache2\conf\workers.properties, insert code…

workers.tomcat_home=C:/www/tomcat5workers.java_home=C:/jdk1.5.0_07ps=\

# Define worker 'example'worker.list=example

# Set properties for worker 'example' (ajp13)worker.example.type=ajp13worker.example.host=localhostworker.example.port=8009

worker.example.cachesize=10worker.example.cache_timeout=600worker.example.socket_keepalive=1worker.example.recycle_timeout=300

Edit file C:\www\Apache2\conf\httpd.conf, insert code...

LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so

<ifmodule>

  JkWorkersFile conf/workers.properties  JkLogFile logs/mod_jk.log  JkLogLevel error  JkLogStampFormat "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] "  JkOptions +ForwardKeySize +ForwardURICompat -ForwardDirectories  JkRequestLogFormat "%w %V %T"

  Alias /jsp-examples "C:/www/tomcat5/webapps/jsp-examples/"

  <directory>      Options Indexes +FollowSymLinks      AllowOverride None      Allow from all </directory>

  Alias /servlets-examples "C:/www/tomcat5/webapps/servlets-examples/"

  <directory>      Options Indexes +FollowSymLinks      AllowOverride None      Allow from all  </directory>

 <location>      AllowOverride None      deny from all</location>

  JkMount /jsp-examples/*.jsp example  JkMount /servlets-examples/* example

</ifmodule>

Install and Start Tomcat

Tomcat can be installed as a Service or started as a Standalone Console application. Note to make sure that Apache has been started at this point.