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cvs commit: jakarta-tomcat/src/doc tomcat-netscape-howto.html NT-Service-howto.html
larryi 00/10/11 23:22:54
Modified: src/doc Tag: tomcat_32 tomcat-netscape-howto.html
NT-Service-howto.html
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@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
<li>WinNT4.0-i386 SP4/SP5/SP6a (it should be able to work on other versions
of the NT service pack and also UNIX) </li>
<li>Netscape Enterprise 3.0 and 3.61</li>
- <li>Tomcat3.0 - Tomcat3.1beta1 </li>
+ <li>Tomcat3.0 - Tomcat3.2 </li>
</ol>
<p>The redirector uses <b>ajp12</b> to send requests to the Tomcat
@@ -48,11 +48,25 @@
<h2>Installation</h2>
-<p>The Netscape redirector is not part of the "official" build of Jakarta, You
-can obtain the code and binaries needed for it by accessing
-http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/tomcat/release/v3.1_beta_1/bin/win32/i386/.
-The redirector related file is <tt>nsapi_redirect.dll</tt>.</p>
+<p>As of Tomcat 3.2, a pre-built version of the Netscape redirector server plugin
+for Win32, <tt>nsapi_redirect.dll</tt>, is available from two locations. First,
+it may be found under the win32/i386 directory where you got the
+<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/downloads/binindex.html"> Tomcat binary
+distribution.</a> Second, it may be found in the Tomcat source distribution under
+jakarta-tomcat\bin\netscape\nt4\i386. The <tt>nsapi_redirect.dll</tt>
+may be used on Win98 systems in spite of the "nt4" in the sequence of subdirectories.
+For those using Netscape as your browser, your best bet is to download the Tomcat
+source distribution since there have been reported problems with Netscape downloading
+DLLs directly.</p>
+
+<p>A pre-built version of the Netscape redirector server plugin for Linux,
+<tt>nsapi_redirect.so</tt>, is available in the Tomcat source distribution
+under jakarta-tomcat\bin\netscape\linux\i386. (Though this Linux version is available,
+the OS dependent instructions below refer only to Windows NT.)</p>
+<p>You can also build a copy locally from the source in Tomcat's source
+distribution.</p>
+
<p>The Tomcat redirector requires two entities:
<ol>
@@ -122,6 +136,16 @@
<p>After saving obj.conf restart Netscape and it will serve the new context.</p>
+<p>As a new feature in Tomcat 3.2, a <tt>obj.conf-auto</tt> is
+automatically written each time Tomcat is started. This file includes settings
+for each of the contexts that Tomcat will serve during its run. Each context
+has settings to have Tomcat handle servlet and JSP requests, as well as a setting
+to have Netscape serve all other content. This file requires some modification
+before it can be used directly. If you wish to use this file directly, instead
+of copying some of its contents to another file, you should rename it (so it won't
+be overwritten the next time Tomcat is started) and make any required modifications.
+</p>
+
<h2>Building the redirector</h2>
<p>The redirector was developed using Visual C++ Ver.6.0, so having this environment is a
@@ -215,8 +239,11 @@
<p>As you can see the second configuration is more explicit, it actually instructs
Netscape to assign the redirector with only requests to resources under <tt>/examples/servlet/</tt>
-and resources under <tt>/examples/ </tt>whose name ends with <tt>.jsp</tt>. You can be
-even more explicit and provide lines such as:</p>
+and resources under <tt>/examples/ </tt>whose name ends with <tt>.jsp</tt>. This is
+similar to what is automically written to the <tt>obj.conf-auto</tt> file for
+each context.</p>
+
+<p>You can be even more explicit and provide lines such as:</p>
<p><tt>NameTrans fn="assign-name" from="/examples/servletname"
name="servlet"</tt></p>
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<html>
@@ -30,17 +30,16 @@
<ul>
<li>Download
the executable from <a
- href="http://jakarta.apache.org/cvsweb/index.cgi/~checkout~/jakarta-tomcat/bin/nt_service/jk_nt_service.exe?rev=1.1">http://jakarta.apache.org/cvsweb/index.cgi/~checkout~/jakarta-tomcat/bin/nt_service/jk_nt_service.exe?rev=1.1</a>
- and save it under the name jk_nt_service.exe.</li>
+ href="http://jakarta.apache.org/cvsweb/index.cgi/~checkout~/jakarta-tomcat/bin/nt_service/jk_nt_service.exe?rev=1.2">http://jakarta.apache.org/cvsweb/index.cgi/~checkout~/jakarta-tomcat/bin/nt_service/jk_nt_service.exe?rev=1.2</a>
+ and save it under the name jk_nt_service.exe.<br>
+ As of the Tomcat 3.2 release, jk_nt_service.exe may also be found in the Tomcat
+ source distribution under jakarta-tomcat\bin\nt_service.</li>
</ul>
<li>Customize
a properties file that provides the service with Tomcat information
(wrapper.properties).</li>
<ul>
- <li>Download
- a template from <a
- href="http://jakarta.apache.org/cvsweb/index.cgi/~checkout~/jakarta-tomcat/src/etc/wrapper.properties?rev=1.1">http://jakarta.apache.org/cvsweb/index.cgi/~checkout~/jakarta-tomcat/src/etc/wrapper.properties?rev=1.1</a>
- and save it under the name wrapper.properties.</li>
+ <li>Locate the wrapper.properties template file in your Tomcat conf directory.
<li>Update
the wrapper.tomcat_home property to point at your tomcat home.</li>
<li>Update