Tomcat Restart

I gave up on servlet support last year as my host didn't know much about Java or servlets. Well yesterday, I noticed an option in WHM to use easyapache3 and servlets so I decided to give it another try.

I installed servlets on a domain, but Tomcat never started. Oh yeah, I use easyapache3 to install Tomcat 5.5.25 first and I see the domain added to the server.xml file and mod_jk in the the httpd.conf file.

However, attempts to serve JSP's result in 503's (server wasn't running) and 404's, Tomcat running, but can't serve a JSP or servlet from the domain where I installed servlets from WHM.

I used the restart tomcat script to try and get Tomcat running. No go. Looked at the script and it appears there is a tomcat disabled file that is sitting in etc that prevents the restart script from working. So I moved the tomcat disabled file and poof, the restart tomcat service script works and Tomcat starts. However, I still can't serve anything using Tomcat.

So 2 questions:
1. What gotchas do I need to look for by moving the tomcat disabled file
2. How do I get Tomcat to start automatically?
3. How do I get the web server and Tomcat to play nicely in this environment so I can serve JSPs and Servlets?

Thanks.