Run Tomcat Server Under Apache Server

In this post I am trying to give you information of running tomcat server under apache server on LINUX. If you want to do so then follow these instructions:

1. First of all get Apache HTTP server from apahce site http://httpd.apache.org and apache tomcat server from http://tomcat.apache.org
2. Install both Apache and Tomcat servers on your system.
3. Now get tomcat connector from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-connectors.cgi
4. Now start extracting tomcat connectors file and installing it on bash shell:
   
5. $gunzip tomcat-connecters-x.x.xx-src.tar.gz
6. $tar -xvf tomcat-connecters-x.x.xx-src.tar
7. $cd tomcat-connecters-x.x.xx-src/native
8. $./configure --with-apxs=APACHE_PATH/bin/apxs
   
9. $make (compiling the installation files)
   
10. $make install (installing files)
11. $cp apache 2.0/mod_jk.so APACHE_PATH/modules
12. Now configuring Tomcat server:
13. $vi TOMCAT_PATH/conf/server.xml
    
14. In this file add
    <Listener classname="org.apache.jk.config.ApacheConfig" modJk="APACHE_PATH/modules/mod_jk.so"/ >
    in <engine name="Catalina" defaulthost="localhost">...<engine> block.
15. Restart tomcat server if it is running: $./TOMCAT_PATH/bin/shutdown.sh then $./TOMCAT_PATH/bin/startup.sh
16. Now doing Tomcat configuration
17. $vi TOMCAT_PATH/cont/auto/mod_jk.conf
18. Copy appropriate JkMount files from block to outside of it. eg JkMount /abc ajp13
19. Now configuring Apache server
20. Open apache configuration file $vi APACHE_PATH/conf/httpd.conf
21. Add following line at the end of file: Include TOMCAT_PATH/conf/auto/mod_jk.conf
22. Also add LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so in httpd.conf file.
    
23. Restart Apache server: $/usr/sbin/apachectl restart
24. And you have dont it!!!

Now you can run tomcat server applications with the layer of apache server such as if you are running http://localhost:8080/tomcat_project then now you can run it as http://localhost/tomcat_project you will get redirected to your project.

Reference:
http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/webserver_howto/apache.html

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