Tomcat 4 JSP OK Having Servlet WEB-INF issues

[BobFarkle]

I installed jsp-install-4.x.tar.gz from layer1.cpanel.net, installed it, configured stuff a bit, activated an account in WHM, and .JSP files work great inside the www directory, however I created a WEB-INF dir and lib / classes dir under the www dir but my JAR files are not being found. I also put a standard unpackaged class in the classes directory with no luck. Tomcat is getting invoked by the /servlet call but /servlet/classname is not working. I am familiar with java programming and resin by caucho... but his is my first experience with Tomcat outside of a dev environment and I am having trouble.

Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this / where to look would be great. Thanks.

-A.J.
ajo@dpzone.com

[dgbaker]

A.J. - Jar files are a funny thing, they need to be set in the classpath. Unfortunatly this also requires a Tomcat restart. You need to put the jar files in a directory like $JAVA_HOME/lib/ext

Hope that helps a little.

[jsteel]

[quote:fc9720eb74][i:fc9720eb74]Originally posted by dgbaker[/i:fc9720eb74]

A.J. - Jar files are a funny thing, they need to be set in the classpath. Unfortunatly this also requires a Tomcat restart. You need to put the jar files in a directory like $JAVA_HOME/lib/ext

Hope that helps a little.[/quote:fc9720eb74]

Incorrect. You simply need to add your jars to your /WEB-INF/lib directory. Tomcat will automatically add them to the classpath. In addition, you can put any jar into the $JDK_HOME/jre/lib/ext and it will get loaded without needing to put it into the classpath. This was added into JDK/JRE 1.4.

Bob, PM me the &IfModule mod_jk.c& section for the domain in your httpd.conf, as well as the &Host& entry for the domain in your server.xml file.

Jaz

[BobFarkle]

My java version is:
java version &1.4.0&
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0-b92)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-b92, mixed mode)



Here it the extract from the httpd.conf file: I understand that &ajp13& is saying.. use tomcat. But where is ajp13 defined? Are there other options for tomcat?



ServerAlias www.myspu.net myspu.net
ServerAdmin webmaster@myspu.net
DocumentRoot /home/myspune/public_html
BytesLog domlogs/myspu.net-bytes_log
User myspune
Group myspune
ServerName www.myspu.net
CustomLog domlogs/myspu.net combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/myspune/public_html/cgi-bin/


JkMount /*.jsp ajp13
JkMount /servlet/* ajp13
JkMount /servlets/* ajp13

[dgbaker]

In the web.xml for the Tomcat install check that the following are not rem'd out

&servlet&
&servlet-name&invoker&/servlet-name&
&servlet-class&org.apache.catalina.servlets.InvokerServlet&/servlet-class&
&init-param&
&param-name&debug&/param-name&
&param-value&0&/param-value&
&/init-param&
&load-on-startup&2&/load-on-startup&
&/servlet&


&!-- The mapping for the invoker servlet --&
&servlet-mapping&
&servlet-name&invoker&/servlet-name&
&url-pattern&/servlet/*&/url-pattern&
&/servlet-mapping&


Tomcat by default only sets up /servlet/ and it may be rem'd out.