Tomcat 4.0.3 Apache 1.3.x and Mod_WebApp on MacOSX

[Alexander Hartner <al...@bluescontrol.co.za>]

I am having such problems running tomcat 4.0.3 on my ibook. I can get 
tomcat started, and I can access it via port 8080. I can also deploy my 
war files by copying them to the webapps directory, but updates are not 
reflected until I have restarted Tomcat. I found some advise to add 
unpackWAR=false in my server.xml file which now allows my to reload my 
application via the manager app (great), but now the mod_web_app 
complains that is cannot deploy my application. In the apache_log file 
in tomcat's log directory the error reported indicates that it cannot 
find the directory of my webapp, which no longer exist since the war 
file does not get extracted.

Before I added the unpackWAR=false I had to restart tomcat all the time, 
which resulted in a whole list of problems by itself. I keep on getting 
the error that my web app is not deployed, even though that my 
application is deployed and accessible directly via port 8080.

I also tried to build the latest mod_web_app.so, which I succeeded 
doing, but it did not work either. I then got error :
2002-05-19 23:26:29 WarpEngine[Apache]: Mapping request
2002-05-19 23:26:29 WarpHost[butterfly]: Mapping request for Host
2002-05-19 23:26:30 [org.apache.catalina.connector.warp.WarpConnection]
Exception on socket
java.io.IOException: Premature packet header end
        at
org.apache.catalina.connector.warp.WarpConnection.recv(WarpConnection.java:
237)
        at
org.apache.catalina.connector.warp.WarpRequestHandler.handle
(WarpRequestHandler.java:112)
        at
org.apache.catalina.connector.warp.WarpConnection.run(WarpConnection.java:
194)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:496)

in apache_log.2002-05-19.txt and error :

[Sun May 19 23:26:30 2002] [notice] child pid 23875 exit signal Bus
error (10)

in /private/var/log/httpd/error_log.

Is anybody else having these problem, or is anybody else even using 
tomcat on macosx ?

Thanks
Alex