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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 18:14:59 -0700
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From: John Miller <tora@earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: solaris mod_jk
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Thanks Bryan,

I finally found it in jakarta-tomcat-3.3-b1-src.zip after looking through
every other package.

Regards-

John


At 05:25 PM 8/16/01 -0700, you wrote:
>John,
>
>Someone else noticed that too!!
>I thought I was exceptionally dumb, since almost nothing worked like the
>documentation said.
>As it turns out, the docs seem to be an obstacle course.
>I spent sooo many hours trying to figure that out.
>I ended up downloading every single tomcat until I found one that would
>work.
>ok, I've just been looking at my Sol7 system to see what I can show you, and
>guess what? I cleaned up every dist. except one tomcat, and it isn't the
>tomcat that I actually got the mod_jk.so from.  So, I want to help you, but
>i've already covered my tracks.
>However, there is a dist that has it in it, it's sort of like hidden prize,
>you have to search a bunch of packages until you find where it's hiding.
>One hint though, try downloading only .tar.gz files, and stay away from the
>zip ones, I downloaded everything, and they seem to be different. One of the
>developers also told me to download .tar.gz too for some reason.
>What I think i did, is download the source, and look for afile called
>solaris.sh or something like that.(i used a lot of find commands)
>It's in a folder with lots of other build scripts. If you run it, with some
>modification, it should produce a mod_jk.so for you. Then you can go back to
>the other dist(not-src), after you put mod_jk.so in your apache/libexec dir,
>and start apache, go to tomcat/bin and run tomcat.sh start and it might
>start.
>also make sure you include the correct conf file in apache. if you are not
>using any jserv, use mod_jk.conf-auto and rename it to mod_jk.conf-local or
>something, because tomcat creates its' conf files on every start, so if you
>change it, and then restart, you'll be in trouble. yeah, so uh, have fun.
>I'll check the list tomorrow , 
>hope this has been humorous, if not a little helpful.
>
>Bryan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Miller [mailto:tora@earthlink.net]
>Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 5:11 PM
>To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
>Subject: solaris mod_jk
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I've been trying to make a build of mod_jk for solaris 2.6 however the
>instructions at
>http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-3.2-doc/mod_jk-howto.html#s4 appear
>to be very wrong.  I downloaded the source but there is no /native/mod_jk
>directory.  Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>John
>