| README for WebApp Library and Related Modules |
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| Notice |
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| NO, IT DOES NOT RUN WITH WINDOWS (your images don't appear and the |
| whole thing hangs?) AND SINCE I DON'T USE NEITHER POSSESS A MICROSOFT |
| WINDOWS BASED MACHINE, THERE ARE NO CURRENT PLANS ON MAKING IT WORK |
| OVER THERE (from my side). |
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| If you want to do it (port it to Windows), those are few hints: |
| - Apache 1.3 on Windows is MultiThreaded |
| - Therefore the error coming out is a multi-threading issue |
| - The WARP socket is unique in WebApp |
| - You need to change that and build up a socket pool |
| - And add some locking mechanism to prevent race conditions |
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| If you don't know what the above means, simply forget it (and I suggest |
| you doing a "format c:" and install Solaris 8 - my favorite preference |
| or throw out your x86 hardware out of in the dumpster and get an |
| Apple PowerMac with MacOS/X installed). If you are willing to do the |
| job, you're more than welcome to write to me or to the mailing list |
| with some patches. |
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| How to obtain the WebApp and Apache Portable Runtime sources: |
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| NOTE: If you downloaded a source distribution from our website or a |
| mirror (the file is called webapp-module...src.tar.gz) you don't need |
| to obtain any other file. Please follow this chapter only if you want |
| to obtain the latest CVS version of the sources. |
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| Check out the module sources from CVS using the following commands: |
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| cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic login |
| (Logging in to anoncvs@cvs.apache.org) |
| CVS password: anoncvs |
| cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic \ |
| checkout jakarta-tomcat-connectors/webapp |
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| Once CVS downloads the WebApp module sources, we need to download the |
| APR (Apache Portable Runtime) sources. To do this simply: |
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| cd ./jakarta-tomcat-connectors/webapp |
| cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic \ |
| checkout apr |
| An other way is to use a release version of APR: |
| - You can download it from http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/. |
| - Extract it in jakarta-tomcat-connectors/webapp (Remember use a Gnu tar). |
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| When the APR sources are in place, we need to create the configure |
| scripts. It is done by running the command: |
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| ./support/buildconf.sh |
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| To build the sources, now follow the steps in the next chapters. |
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| How to build the tomcat-webapp.jar module from CVS sources: |
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| The tomcat-webapp.jar is build using Ant. |
| To get Ant see (http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html). |
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| To build the tomcat-webapp.jar you have to do the following: |
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| * Edit build.properties to taste. This file is created by ./configure when |
| the WebApp module is configured, see below. |
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| * Run "ant". It'll build the tomcat-webapp.jar |
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| * Copy the build/lib/tomcat-webapp.jar in the Tomcat server/lib directory. |
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| * If using cygwin make sure of the following: |
| - cygwin1.dll is in your PATH variable. |
| - grep is installed (GNU grep, egrep and fgrep: Category Base). |
| - sed is installed (sed: GNU sed stream editor: Category Base). |
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| How to build the WebApp module from CVS sources: |
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| If you downloaded the CVS sources (as described above) or downloaded a |
| source distribution of the WebApp module, now all you need to do is build |
| the binary module for your platform. To do so, start by doing a: |
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| ./configure --with-apxs |
| make |
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| In case your platform needs some flags for APR just put them before the |
| configure. For example: |
| ./support/buildconf.sh |
| CC=/usr/bin/cc \ |
| CFLAGS=-DXTI_SUPPORT \ |
| ./configure --with-apxs=/opt/apache/bin/apxs |
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| This will configure and build APR, and build the WebApp module for |
| Apache 1.3. The available options for the configure script are: |
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| --with-apxs[=FILE] |
| Use the APXS Apache 1.3 Extension Tool. If this option is |
| not specified, the Apache module will not be built (only the |
| APR and WEBAPP libraries will be build). |
| The "FILE" parameter specifies the full path for the apxs |
| executable. If this is not specified apxs will be searched in |
| the current path. |
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| --with-apr=DIR |
| If you already have the APR sources lying around somewhere, and |
| want to use them instead of checking them out from CVS, you can |
| specify where these can be found. |
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| --enable-debug |
| Enable compiled-in debugging output. Using this option the WebApp |
| module, library, and Java counterpart will be built with debugging |
| information. This will create a lot of output in your log files, |
| and will kill performances, but it's a good starting poing when |
| something goes wrong. |
| --enable-java=DIR |
| Enable the build of java part of mod_webapp: tomcat-warp.jar. |
| DIR is the directory containing the Tomcat distribution. |
| It works for Tomcat 4.x. |
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| Once built, the DSO module will be found in the webapp/apache-1.3 directory. |
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| To install it copy the mod_webapp.so file in your Apache 1.3 libexec |
| directory, and add the following lines to httpd.conf: |
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| LoadModule webapp_module [path to mod_webapp.so] |
| AddModule mod_webapp.c |
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| To check out if everything is correctly configured, issue the following: |
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| apachectl configtest |
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| If the output of the apachectl command doesn't include "Syntax OK", something |
| went wrong with the build process. Please report that through our bug tracking |
| database at <http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla> or to the Tomcat developers |
| mailing list <mailto:tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org> |
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| Have fun... |
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| Pier <pier@betaversion.org> |
