This post discusses the auto configuration of Tomcat inside a XAMPP. The tomcat configuration file is automatically generated when the services are started.
The steps would be same ( though directories are different) if you want to do this on Apache- Tomcat setup.
For Auto Configure to work.
1) Apache in XAMPP references the tomcat.conf file.
The httpd.conf file in stored in ${xampp_home}\apache\conf. It has setting for tomcat. See Below
# Tomcat settings
Include “conf/extra/mod_jk.conf”
2)The tomcat configuration file references the auto generated configuration file.
The contents of mod_jk.conf in ${xampp_home}\apache\conf
# Tomcat auto-configure
# This is location of automatically generated file
Include “C:/devkit/xampp/tomcat/conf/auto/mod_jk.conf”.
Apache refers to http.conf file. This file refers mod_jk.conf file which loads the auto generated tomcat mod_jk.conf (better name would be mod_jk.conf_auto ) reference file.
3) Tomcat needs to know if auto generated file will be used
The server.xml file in ${xampp_home}\tomcat\conf has setting to auto create the Xampp-Apache-Tomcat conf file.
<Engine name=”Catalina” defaultHost=”localhost”>
<Listener className=”org.apache.jk.config.ApacheConfig” modJk=”C:/devkit/xampp/apache/modules/mod_jk.so”/>
….
</Engine>
4) Tomcat workers.properties need to set correctly
uses the setting in worker.properties in ${xampp_home}\tomcat\conf\jk for generating the auto configuration file . The link to the files is mod_jk.conf and workers.properties
Tomcat load server.xml and workers.properties to auto generated the mod_jk.conf(auto) file used by apache.
The contents of auto generated file : Any change to this file is lost when services are restarted.
########## Auto generated on Mon Feb 08 13:44:07 PST 2010##########
<IfModule !mod_jk.c>
LoadModule jk_module “C:/devkit/xampp/apache/modules/mod_jk.so”
</IfModule>
JkWorkersFile “C:/devkit/xampp/tomcat/conf/jk/workers.properties”
JkLogFile “C:/devkit/xampp/tomcat/logs/mod_jk.log”
JkLogLevel emerg
<VirtualHost localhost>
ServerName localhost
JkMount /test ajp13
JkMount /test/* ajp13
JkMount /examples ajp13
JkMount /examples/* ajp13
JkMount /newdev ajp13
JkMount /newdev/* ajp13
JkMount /host-manager ajp13
JkMount /host-manager/* ajp13
JkMount /redesigndev ajp13
JkMount /redesigndev/* ajp13
JkMount /docs ajp13
JkMount /docs/* ajp13
JkMount /manager ajp13
JkMount /manager/* ajp13
</VirtualHost>
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