Q: Is it possible to connect to Tomcat on NT from mod_jk on Solaris/Apache?

[Ben Kimball <bk...@home.com>]

I have Tomcat running on NT. I have Apache running on Solaris. I am trying to 
get mod_jk.so (on Solaris) to connect to Tomcat running on NT. (Not my idea - 
work wants me to try to get this to work)

However, it seems that the workers.properties file needs to be seen by both 
Tomcat itself and the mod_jk module, BUT the version of Tomcat on NT writes 
out workers.properties using Windows-style directory names (Drive letters and 
backslashes) which is meaningless to mod_jk on Solaris, as it does not grok 
drive letters and expects forward-slashes.

First, I don't quite understand why mod_jk needs to know about 
workers.properties - I would think it would just need to forward requests to 
Tomcat and it would figure it out. (Or does it? When I leave out the Apache 
directive for the location of the workers.properties file it refuses to 
start, so I assume it does)

Secondly, what exactly in the workers.properties file does mod_jk need to 
know? Can I perhaps point non-essential information to dummy directories (say 
/dev/null or something) and translate only the needed information to 
unix-directory format? Since once I get this going, it will only host this 
one application and the configuration will never change, I was hoping I could 
just do a one time translation to get the two to talk to each other.

Is there a way to do this, or is this just a silly thing to attempt?

Thanks!