Netscape Crisis

[Ewan Makepeace <ew...@yahoo.com>]

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enough space to cope with the level of traffic it generates. Please cc me
personally on any reply. Thanks.

I have a commercial Java application running under Tomcat [was 3.2.1, now
3.2.2] for the last 4 months. Tomcat has been fantastic, I am extremely
happy with it. However I have added extensive help files with lots of
graphics and last month had two partial server hangs, which I assumed might
be the effect of putting too much regular server load on Tomcat. Therefore I
decided to install Apache [on 80] and let Tomcat be delegated the servlet
requests [on 8080].

I set this up as follows:

1. include "include c:/tomcat/conf/mod_jk.conf-auto" to httpd.conf
2. copy mod_jk.dll to c:/program files/apache group/apache/modules
2. uncomment "LoadModule jserv_module modules/ApacheModuleJServ.dll" at
tomcat.conf
3. uncomment "ApJServDefaultHost localhost" at tomcat.conf
4, add at tomcat.conf
DocumentRoot c:/tomcat/webapps/root

<Directory "c:/tomcat/webapps/root">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
#   Options -Indexes
</Directory>

<Location "c:/tomcat/webapps/root/WEB-INF/">
    AllowOverride None
    deny from all
</Location>

and it runs fine. I tested it and notified the client that I would roll out
the new version on Monday. Today I have realised that although it works fine
on MS IE, it does not work with Netscape Communicator [versions 4.75 or
6.0]. What happens is that regular pages are served OK but my servlets get
displayed as raw HTML. If I modify the URL to access port 8080 instead the
page gets displayed correctly, so the problem seems to be related to the
Apache/Tomcat handoff.

I suspect this is a known problem, but I couldn't see any reference in the
FAQ. I wouldn't bother you guys on the mailing list if I hadn't already
promised a Monday delivery...

Thanks in advance for any pointers,
rgds
Ewan Makepeace


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