StudentKen's questions

I've tried several attempts to resolve this, but all have come up naught.

Currently I have apache setup to forward all urls at and past the /portal/ tag to tomcat. Unfortunately, tomcat receives these requests through /portal/appName, a subdirectory in webapps rather than the webapps root directory where my wars are deployed.

Is there a simple solution to this that I'm not seeing? I've been trying to use mod_rewrite to ^/portal/ $ / but that doesn't yield the expected results (perhaps I'm doing this wrong?).

Disclaimier: Not a server admin

I've been scratching my head over this for weeks now (not consistently mind you, as that would be maddening). I've been trying to connect my apache2 server to my tomcat server to the point where if someone encounters *.jsp or any servelet in navigating my web directory, it's handed over to tomcat.

I have both Apache2.0 (port 9099) and Tomcat6 (9089) running on Debian lenny on the same box.

Currently, mod_jk is enabled with mod_jk.conf in $apacheHOME/mods-enabled/ with content:

    # Where to find workers.properties
JkWorkersFile /etc/apache2/workers.properties
    # Where to put jk shared memory
JkShmFile     /var/log/at_jk/mod_jk.shm
    # Where to put jk logs
JkLogFile     /var/log/at_jk/mod_jk.log
    # Set the jk log level [debug/error/info]
JkLogLevel    info
    # Select the timestamp log format
JkLogStampFormat "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] "
    # Send servlet for context /examples to worker named worker1
JkMount  /*/servlet/* worker1
    # Send JSPs  for context /examples to worker named worker1
JkMount  /*.jsp worker1

my workers.properties located in $apacheHOME/ with content:

workers.tomcat_home=/var/lib/tomcat6
workers.java_home=/usr/lib/jdk1.6.0_23/db/
worker.list=worker1
ps=/

worker.worker1.port=9081
worker.worker1.host=localhost
worker.worker1.type=ajp13

my web.xml in $tomcatHOME/conf has the following servlets enabled

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet</servlet-cla$
    <init-param>
        <param-name>debug</param-name>
        <param-value>0</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>listings</param-name>
        <param-value>false</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>


<servlet>
    <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>fork</param-name>
        <param-value>false</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>xpoweredBy</param-name>
        <param-value>false</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>3</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<session-config>
    <session-timeout>30</session-timeout>
</session-config>

server.xml :

--> -->

<!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 -->

<Connector port="9081" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="9088" />

mod_jk.log :

[Mon Feb 21 13:49:35 2011] [2921:3075307264] [info] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (566): connect to 127.0.0.1:9081 failed (errno=111)
[Mon Feb 21 13:49:35 2011] [2921:3075307264] [info] ajp_connect_to_endpoint::jk_ajp_common.c (869): Failed opening socket to (127.0.0.1:9081) (errno=111)
[Mon Feb 21 13:49:35 2011] [2921:3075307264] [error] ajp_send_request::jk_ajp_common.c (1359): (worker1) connecting to backend failed. Tomcat is probably not started or is listening on the wrong port (errno=111)
[Mon Feb 21 13:49:35 2011] [2921:3075307264] [info] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2194): (worker1) sending request to tomcat failed (recoverable), because of error during request sending (attempt=1)
[Mon Feb 21 13:49:35 2011] [2921:3075307264] [info] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (566): connect to 127.0.0.1:9081 failed (errno=111)
[Mon Feb 21 13:49:35 2011] [2921:3075307264] [info] ajp_connect_to_endpoint::jk_ajp_common.c (869): Failed opening socket to (127.0.0.1:9081) (errno=111)
[Mon Feb 21 13:49:35 2011] [2921:3075307264] [error] ajp_send_request::jk_ajp_common.c (1359): (worker1) connecting to backend failed. Tomcat is probably not started or is listening on the wrong port (errno=111)
[Mon Feb 21 13:49:35 2011] [2921:3075307264] [info] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2194): (worker1) sending request to tomcat failed (recoverable), because of error during request sending (attempt=2)
[Mon Feb 21 13:49:35 2011] [2921:3075307264] [error] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2212): (worker1) Connecting to tomcat failed. Tomcat is probably not started or is listening on the wrong port
[Mon Feb 21 13:49:35 2011] [2921:3075307264] [info] jk_handler::mod_jk.c (2364): Service error=-3 for worker=worker1

There appears to be an issue with port 9081, no process is using it, so I would suppose it's configured incorrectly. Though my tomcat port works fine.

 ickronia:/var/log/at_jk# telnet localhost 9081
 Trying ::1...
 Trying 127.0.0.1...
 telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
 ickronia:/var/log/at_jk#

From what I can tell, there's no funny buisness as both the apache2, tomcat, and mod_jk logs show green; yet whenever I navigate to a jsp, it simply displays the javascript.

I'm unsure what the problem is exactly despite pouring over the logs and documentation for aid. I'm quite a greenhorn in the servelet world.

Disclaimer: I'm not a server admin.

I recently put up tomcat on my home server and I intend to link it to my apache2 service. My issue here is that I can't even get manager as it seems that whenever i enable the tomcat-users.xml, tomcat will hang.

My tomcat-users.xml file is as so ($user , and $password substituted)

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

<tomcat-users>

<role rolename="manager"/>

<role rolename="admin"/>

<user username="$user" password="$password" roles="admin,manager"/>

</tomcat-users>

This is a default tomcat6 installation, so why would this cause a hang? how can I resolve this?

The syntax and hanging has been resolved thanks to jmort253, however <domain>:<port>/manager/html is still unavailable. Is there something equally silly I'm missing here? the documentation points that the default package should have this stock.

Is there a way to route mail to another port? I have an email account attached to my laptop that I'd like to be able to send and receive mail from. Due to mobility, I'll be passing through various networks that will probably block this port.

My dynamic DNS provider allows me to utilize web-forwards for MX domains; is this possible? where I can web forward to a domain:port which is managed by my DNS provider when I traverse between networks. If not, is there a way?

Of course i could use web-mail or relay-forwarding from my home server, but that's not geeky enough.

There seems to be a path inheritance issue which is boggling me over access restrictions. For instance, if I grant rw access one group/user, and wish to restrict it some /../../secret to none, it promptly spits in my face.

Here is an example of what I'm trying to achieve in dav_svn.authz

[groups]
grp_W = a, b, c, g
grp_X = a, d, f, e
grp_Y = a, e,

[/]
* = 
@grp_Y = rw

[somerepo1:/projectPot]
@grp_W = rw

[somerepo2:/projectKettle]
@grp_X = rw

What is expected: grp_Y has rw access to all repositories, while grp_W and grp_X only have access to their respective repositories.

What occurs: grp_Y has access to all repositories, while grp_W and grp_X have access to nothing

If I flip the access ordering where I give everyone access and restrict it in each repository, it promply ignores the invalidation rule (stripping of rights) and gives everyone the access granted at the root level.

Forgoing groups, it performs the same with user specific provisions; even fully defined such as:

[/]
a = rw
b = 
c = 
d = 
e =
f = 
g = rw

[somerepo1:/projectPot]
a = rw
b = rw
c = rw
d =
e = rw
f =
g = rw

[somerepo2:/projectKettle]
a = rw
b
c
d = rw
e = rw
f = rw
g

Which yields the exact same result. According to the documentation I'm following all protocols so this is insane.

Running on Apache2 with dav_svn