Tomcat and Apache via Mod_jk in Gentoo Linux

Once again, I was resorting things out, cleaning the mess and placing services in logical order on different machines. So, once again, I had to configure tomcat to work with apache on one standard port. A year ago, I found tutorial made by some debian h4x0rz, but I lost my bookmarks so many times since then (thnq, firefox devs). Happily, my configuration files are still there, so I will document it this time. 1. Install apache2, tomcat6 and mod_jk. 2. Append this to httpd.conf LoadModule jk_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_jk.so # loggging JkLogFile /usr/lib/apache2/logs/mod_jk.log # Where to find workers.properties JkWorkersFile /etc/apache2/jk-workers.properties # Select the log format JkLogStampFormat “[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] ” # JkOptions indicate to send SSL KEY SIZE, JkOptions +ForwardKeySize +ForwardURICompat -ForwardDirectories # JkRequestLogFormat set the request format JkRequestLogFormat “%w %V %T” # Send servlet for context / jsp-examples to worker named worker1 JkMount /jsp-examples worker1 # Send JSPs for context /jsp-examples/* to worker named worker1 JkMount /jsp-examples/* worker1 #application specific (my is called pdd) # Send servlet for context / jsp-examples to worker named worker1 JkMount /pdd worker1 # Send JSPs for context /jsp-examples/* to worker named worker1 JkMount /pdd/* worker1 2. Create directory /usr/lib/apache2/logs/ and empty file /usr/lib/apache2/logs/mod_jk.log 3. Append this to jk-workers.properties workers.tomcat_home=/var/lib/tomcat-5.5 workers.java_home=/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.03/ ps=/ worker.list=worker1 worker.default.port=8009 worker.default.host=localhost worker.default.type=ajp13 worker.default.lbfactor=1 4. /etc/init.d/apache2 restart && /etc/init.d/tomcat-6 restart