Installing Apache2 and Tomcat6 with mod_jk on Ubuntu 10.10

Use case

This brief step-by-step guide tries to explain how to install Tomcat with Apache and mod_jk on an Ubuntu 10.10 system considering following components

Apache 2, MySQL 5, PHP 5, PhpMyAdmin, Sun Java JDK 1.6, Tomcat 6.0, Tomcat-Admin, mod_jk

Update: Since the Java installation changed during the latest Ubuntu releases, the Java installation routine might be outdated. Please read this post for updated instructions.

LAMP – Apache, MySQL, PHP

$ sudo apt-get install tasksel
$ sudo tasksel

Remember your MySQL password.
Now create a test page

$ sudo nano /var/www/info.php

and insert following code

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Restart Apache

/etc/init.d/apache2  restart

and check if everything went fine

$ wget http://[MY_IP]/info.php

PHPMyAdmin

Install via apt-get

$ sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

Choose Apache, and insert credentials

Now create a soft-link to make phpmyadmin-sources available in /var/www

$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www/phpmyadmin

Now open a browser and see if it’s working

http://[MY_IP]/phpmyadmin

(use the credentials you defined shortly before)

JAVA

Since Sun’s java is not provided by the repository anymore, we have to add it manually:

$ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun-java-community-team/sun-java6
$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

Usually this should be already everything what we have to do. Try it by typing

$ sudo java -version

TOMCAT

Install both tomcat-common and tomcat-admin via apt-get

$ sudo apt-get install tomcat6
$ sudo apt-get install tomcat6-admin

For accessing the Tomcat-admin we need to add our own manager-user

$sudo nano /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml

And add the new user

<user username="admin" password="my_secret" roles="manager"/>

Finally restart Tomcat

$ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart

Try if it works

http://[MY_IP]:8080/manager/html

Mod JK

Install via apt-get

$ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-jk

Now create our own workers.properties file for Apache.
Open or create

$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/workers.properties

and paste:

# Define 1 real worker using ajp13
worker.list=worker1
# Set properties for worker1 (ajp13)
worker.worker1.type=ajp13
worker.worker1.host=localhost
worker.worker1.port=8009

Now tell the Apache to use this worker

$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

and add following lines

JkWorkersFile /etc/apache2/workers.properties
# Where to put jk shared memory
# Update this path to match your local state directory or logs directory
JkShmFile /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.shm
# Where to put jk logs
# Update this path to match your logs directory location (put mod_jk.log next to access_log)
JkLogFile /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.log
# Set the jk log level [debug/error/info]
JkLogLevel info
# Select the timestamp log format
JkLogStampFormat "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] "

Finally configure which URLs Apache should pass through the Tomcat

$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
JkMount /mytomcatwebappname* worker1

This means, that every URL that contains the key mytomcatwebappname gets handled by Tomcat instead of Apache.

If you want to pass all requests to the Apache (instead of individual ones), just remove the line

DocumentRoot /var/www

and add following JkMounts:

JkMount / worker1
JkMount /* worker1

And last but not least, we have to enable the redirect port 8443 on Tomcat

$ sudo nano  /etc/tomcat6/server.xml

And uncomment / insert / update that following line is present

<Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />

Now we only have to restart first the Tomcat and then the Apache

$ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
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18 comments on “Installing Apache2 and Tomcat6 with mod_jk on Ubuntu 10.10
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  2. Felipe says:

    Thanks,

    Helped me a lot =)

  3. Karthik says:

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  4. Rafael ROman says:

    You sir is a hero!

  5. Eduardo says:

    Worked perfectly for me! I just had to rename the /etc/apache2/mod-enabled/jk.conf file as Amy suggested.
    Tks a lot!!

  6. Kumar says:

    # /etc/init.d/apache2 start
    * Starting web server apache2 Syntax error on line 232 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:
    JkWorkersFile only allowed once
    Action ‘start’ failed.
    The Apache error log may have more information
    _______________________________________________________

    Changes in the view source
    sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

    just added

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    JkMount / worker1
    JkMount /* worker1

    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all

    ____________________________________

    Could you please help me on this?

    • admin says:

      Looks like you have configured the JkWorkersFile property twice – though the 000-default configuration looks fine.
      What does the apache error log says exactly?

    • Amy says:

      I was challedged by same error. But I managed to solve the problem.

      If you search for the ‘worker.properties’ file you shoud find out that another ‘worker.proprties’ is configured in /etc/apache2/mod-enabled/jk.conf.

      Just rename jk.conf to whatever and restart Apache.

  7. RUSUA says:

    Thanks a lot! Very useful post! You helped me to solve my problem with VirtualHost tomcat6-to-apache)))

  8. Marco says:

    Hey guys, nice tutorial, but i think i’ve got some problems with the ajp protocol.
    I can execute .jsp pages with apache and tomcat using mod_proxy with an http connector, but if i try to do the same with ajp and mod_jk i get un-executed .jsp codelines.
    Any ideas?

  9. Harold Da Costa says:

    The best tuto ever!!!!!

  10. Frell says:

    you made me the happiest man in the world!!!

    Thanks for the tutorial.

  11. michael says:

    I am using Ubuntu 10.10 LAMP with latest updates from the repo’s and I followed your instructions on 4 different attempts and I cannot get this to work with this package from sourceforge:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/convmanager/

    I get this error after I deploy the app and try to get it to start:
    FAIL – Application at context path /CM-0.2 could not be started

    And there are no logs in /var/log/tomcat6/

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  13. seedbox says:

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