AVAJAVA Web Tutorials

It's quite easy to connect ApacheSW to TomcatSW using the mod_jk module. To begin with, let's set up Tomcat. In Tomcat's server.xml file, uncomment the AJP connector, as shown below.

	<Connector port="8009" enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" protocol="AJP/1.3" />

I'm going to run my 'tomcat-demo' project in EclipseSW, so my server.xml file has a Context entry for 'tomcat-demo'.

	<Context docBase="C:\projects\workspace\tomcat-demo\web" path="/tomcat-demo" reloadable="true"/>

Next, I'll start up my 'tomcat-demo' project in Eclipse using a Tomcat bootstrap debug configuration (for details on how to do this, please see my other tutorials):

In the console, when we start fire up the Tomcat bootstrap debug configuration, we can see that the AJP13 listener is listening on port 8009.

...
May 25, 2007 11:25:02 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
May 25, 2007 11:25:02 PM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/31  config=null
...

The Apache web server doesn't come with the mod_jk connector by default, so let's download it. I downloaded the mod_jk Tomcat connector from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-connectors.cgi. For this tutorial, I downloaded mod_jk-apache-2.2.4.so from /pub/apache/tomcat/tomcat-connectors/jk/binaries/win32/jk-1.2.23/.

I placed mod_jk-apache-2.2.4.so in my C:\Apache2.2.4\modules\ directory.

Next, I created a worker.properties file in C:\Apache2.2.4\conf\, as shown below:

worker.properties

worker.list=myworker
worker.myworker.type=ajp13
worker.myworker.host=localhost
worker.myworker.port=8009

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