Hi Malhar.

I've prepared these instructions a month ago to help one of friend and for our support guys. Posting it here ... may be helpful for u ....

It is always better to read the Installation docs and make ur own list...:-)

use this as a just pointer please :-)

Installation of Tomcat: Softwares Required :

1) Apache Webserver (It's always better to use tomcat to use only as a engine to serv jsp/servlets .. instead of burdening it with other things) 2) apxs (mostely included in apache-devel)

3) J2SDK (for JRE as amish mentioned) 4) regexp (for regular expression support) 5) servletapi4 6) xerces (u can know more bout this go to apache site) 7) mod_jk / mod_webapp (This module is for apache webserver to mount some directories to serve JSP/servlets)

8) Tomcat : You can opt for tomcat 3.3.1 or tomcat 4.0.X .. the latter is preffered .. Packages required : a) Tomcat4 server b) Tomcat4 webapps c) Tomcat connectors

Procedure:

Install the above mentioned softwares ... i mean just compile .. If u r having problems for compiling them ...... GET rpm files for above (They r available)

Configurations:

Now let me post some Content of my configurations ... :

1) After Tomcat installations :

edit /etc/tomcat4/conf/tomcat4.conf and make changes according to ur configurations ...

Check {CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/

make a directory/softlink for ur directory under this, to where u want to place ur servlets/jsp files.

Edit {CATALINA_HOME}/conf/server.xml

Add this under host directive of tomcat (reffer docs for understanding wht is this!)

#=========Start

<Context path="/template" docBase="/foo/bar/mydomain/template" debug="0" reloadable="true"> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" prefix="template_log." suffix=".log" timestamp="true" /> </Context>

<!-- somewhere near end u see this for connector service -- >

<!-- Define an Apache-Connector Service -->

<Engine className="org.apache.catalina.connector.warp.WarpEngine" name="host" debug="0">

<!--Replace this host with hostname specified in ur httpd.conf -->

#=========End

Add tomcat4 startup script in your operating system startup.. use /sbin/chkconfig for doing this ...

Tomcat4 runs on 8180 port by default....

2) profile entries to set environment variables

Assuming u know how to do configurations in /etc/profile

#=============start

PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin:." CLASSPATH="/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/lib/td.jar:/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/lib/tools.jar:/u sr/local/mm/mm.mysql-2.0.6-bin.jar:/usr/local/javamail/javamail-1.1.3/mail.j ar:/usr/local/javamail/jaf-1.0.1/activation.jar:/usr/local/upload/lib/cos.ja r:/usr/local/jaxp1.0/jaxp.jar:/usr/share/java/servlet-2.3.jar:/usr/local/jax p1.0/parser.jar:." JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/jdk1.3.1" JDK_HOME="/usr/java/jdk1.3.1" TOMCAT_HOME="/var/tomcat4"

export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC JAVA_HOME CLASSPATH JDK_HOME TOMCAT_HOME

#--------end

I've certain packages extra installed on my machine ...

i) javamail -- to support javamail ii) jaxp -- java xml parser ...... iii) mm-mysql -- mm drivers for mysql connectivity iv) upload -- These r the libraries by o'rielly to add upload support

3) HTTP configurations

I'm using mod_webapp to allow virtualhosting and mounting directories. It's easy !!!

my httpd.conf entries relevant for this ...

#========================start

<IfModule mod_webapp.c> WebAppConnection warpConnection warp localhost:8008 </IfModule>

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.10> ServerName mydomain.com ServerAlias www.mydomain.com mydomain.com DocumentRoot /foo/bar/mydomain/

# This is for mounting template to serv jsp/servlets

WebAppDeploy template warpConnection /template

</VirtualHost>

#======================= END

5) steps to start tomcat : (assuming redhat installation ..... )

Stop your httpd first...

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop

/etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat4 start

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start

6) check whether tomcat is running ...

If u have "lsof" utility ....

run following command

lsof |grep "LISTEN"

if u see tomcat there it is running ....

Regards, Ranjeet

(who is sorry for the line-wraps in this mail. )

Philip S Tellis writes:

On Thu, 16 May 2002, MALHAR PUJAR wrote:

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Linux platform. Tom Cat server is a webserver similar to apache which can run JSP.

Tomcat isn't a full web server, it's more of a jsp/servlet engine with the ability to serve static web pages. If you read the docs, it will help you get started in setting up tomcat - it's a very simple process. You should run tomcat through apache for best performance.

After you've installed it, post again and I'll try and give you further instructions.

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--- MALHAR PUJAR d0153093@ncb.ernet.in wrote:

one more question Does any body know about XKMS?

i dont know abt XKMS, but i wanted to clarify that you need to install the J2SDK and not only the JRE, becoz JSP compilation is required.

as for ranjeet's instructions...they have got me going once before..so they come highly recommended!

regards, aaaaarrrgghhh

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On Thu, 16 May 2002, MALHAR PUJAR wrote:

Does the code written for server program on tomcat running on windows platform be different than the one to be written for linux platform.

unless you make native calls, no. your platform in this case would be tomcat. not windows or linux, but just tomcat.