RE: [cobalt-users] remove Tomcat Server from Raq4

[Glenn Parsons <gparsons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:30 PM 7/3/02 -0700, you wrote:

> I installed Tomcat by signing up through the developer network on Sun and
> installing from PKG file.  I now have a server that grinds to a halt once a
> week.  The only way round it is to kill all the Java processes and restart
> HTTP.
>
> I am hoping that a reinstall - not with a PKG - will help this as I should
> be able to enable it on a site by site basis.
>
> Hope this is enough info as I really want to get round this.

Hi Andy,

You will *NOT* be able to just install over top. There are too many 
differences in file locations and the configs that point to them. Trust me, 
it will be much easier if you remove the pkg content first, then install 
from RPM.

There were a few lines introduced into your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file 
that kick the Tomcat engine off. Sorry, I'm trying all this from memory! 
You will have to comment out the lines: LoadModule and AddModule for the jk 
module. Go through the list of modules, look for jk and comment them out. 
Then, I think I searched for "jak" or "Jak" in the file. If you see this in 
a section outside of a <virtualhost> tag, comment out this section and 
determine where it makes the Tomcat engine calls to (Otherwise see below). 
Locate a base directory for the package. It was not spread-out all over the 
place. There was a simple, base directory to remove and that was that. FOR 
SAFETY SAKE, PLEASE MV THE DIR FIRST!

The version that I had installed did not alter the virtual hosts in the 
Apache /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file. If your version has then you will 
have to restore all lines in each virtual host referring to the root dir of 
each host and comment out some other stuff there as well.

Do yourself a few BIG favors in re-installing:

a) make sure to set your base directory in /home !!!
b) RTFM
c) subscribe to the Tomcat Users list

It is a difficult package to install and even more difficult to tweak!

If you need some more help. Let me know! I have some docs I could send you 
for installation/config, but we should do that off-list. Please feel free 
to contact me off-list.

Thanks,
Glenn Parsons