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Overview

This document covers the installation of:

• Kaffe, a Java Virtual Machine released under the GPL.
• Tomcat, a daemon for running web applications written in Java.
• mod_jk2, an Apache module that allows the Apache HTTP server to delegate requests to Tomcat.

Installation

Download the latest development version of Kaffe.

tar zxf jakarta-tomcat-4.1.30.tar.gz
cd jakarta-tomcat-4.1.30
patch -p0 < ../server.xml.patch
patch -p0 < ../web.xml.patch
cd ..
sudo mv jakarta-tomcat-4.1.30 /usr/local/tomcat4
<verbatim>
sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/tomcat4
sudo update-rc.d tomcat4 defaults
<verbatim>
sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat4 start
<verbatim>
tar zxf apr-0.9.4.tar.gz
tar zxf apr-util-0.9.4.tar.gz
tar zxf jakarta-tomcat-connectors-jk2-src-current.tar.gz
BASE_PATH=`pwd`
cd jakarta-tomcat-connectors-jk2-2.0.4-src/jk/native2
CC=cc ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-apr=$BASE_PATH/apr-0.9.4 --with-apr-util=$BASE_PATH/apr-util-0.9.4 --disable-apr-threads
<nop>

LoadModule jk2_module libexec/mod_jk2.so
<verbatim>
sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat4 restart
sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart
<verbatim>
  <IfModule mod_alias.c>
    RedirectMatch ^/$ http://example.info/example/
  </IfModule>
<nop>

Tomcat Java servlet engine

We're using this to support a legacy application written in Java.

More complete docs to follow.

Compiling mod_jk2:

cd jakarta-tomcat-connectors/jk/native2
CC=cc ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-apr=/home/ben/apr-0.9.4 --with-apr-util=/home/ben/apr-util-0.9.4 --disable-apr-threads
make
cd ../build/jk2/apache13
sudo /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -n jk2 -i mod_jk2.so