problem with WebAppConnection at boot time

[Cindy Ballreich <ci...@ballreich.net>]

I've been reading through the archives and I've seen a lot of questions
about using mod_webapp. In general, mod_webapp seems to be working pretty
well for me. My problem is that it doesn't seem to be able to make a
connection when httpd is started at boot time. 

I'm using RedHat 7.0 and I've written init.d scripts for both Tomcat 4.0.1
and Apache 1.3.19 (both installed manually rather than from RPMs). Tomcat
starts before Apache (Tomcat is S80 and Apache is S89). Both seem to be
starting correctly and both can be accessed directly from their respective
ports. The problem is that the Apache error_log has a string of entries
like this...
[Thu Feb  7 10:20:24 2002] [error] Connection "conn" cannot connect
[Thu Feb  7 10:20:24 2002] [error] Cannot open connection "conn"

... and when I try to access a jsp from one of the contexts defined by
WebAppDeploy in Apache, I get a "WebApp: Error 404 (File: wa_request.c
Line: 198) Web-application not yet deployed" page, and an entry in the log
like this one...
[Thu Feb  7 10:20:42 2002] [error] Web-application not yet deployed

Interestingly, viewing the source of this error page gives me the html that
should be produced by the jsp application I was trying to access!!

Restarting my web server seems to correct this problem. The connection is
made and my jsp files are accessible as I would expect. This indicates to
me that my configuration is essentially correct, but something is
preventing the connection from being made at boot time. Could Tomcat not be
fully loaded when Apache is trying to start? Should I put more space
between the init.d scripts? Are there other daemons that need to be started
in order for webapp to deploy?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

Cindy

By the way, mod_webapp is version 1.0.1 built from source with -DEAPI.


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