Tomcat 5.5.7 with JDK 1.4

[denisdekat09]

Hello,

I had a customer who required jdk 1.4 for his applications to work and I finally got Tomcat 5.5.7 (current version provided by Cpanel)to work. I did much searching on the forums and found this post which was the final bit that helped me solve my issues:

http://forums.cpanel.net/showpost.ph...7&postcount=55

Basically I needed to grab a compat package I was missing, the rest was quite easy really. So sad I missed this, but anyhow...

I am going the list steps I took to get it to work.

1) Grab a j2sdk package from sun ( example: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html )
2) Upload it to the server and unpack it, then rpm install it.
3) Then I did switch the linking for jdk ( mv /usr/local/jdk /usr/local/jdk.old; ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_09 /usr/local/jdk
4) Install the compat libraries - goes something like this:

mv /usr/local/jakarta
wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/jakar...-compat.tar.gz
tar zxvf jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7-compat.tar.gz

5) Then restart tomcat, it should work, as it did for me

Hope this helps someone...