I am having an issue with Tomcat addition to the Xampp install on my portable USB drive.
I have installed Xampp to the root of the drive as suggested, and I have NOT run the "setup_xampp.bat" file as was suggested if i wished to run it on a portable USB drive.
I then installed Tomcat add on, but am having an issue with Apache running properly.
Apache server aborts abnormally with an error in the log file pointing to "\Xampp\tomcat\conf\auto\mod_jk.conf" file.
I looked at the file and saw that it had a drive letter path call to the resources instead of a relative path call.
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<IfModule !mod_jk.c>
LoadModule jk_module "M:/Xampp/tomcat/Xampp/apache/modules/mod_jk.so"
JkWorkersFile "M:/Xampp/tomcat/conf/jk/workers.properties"
JkLogFile "M:/Xampp/tomcat/logs/mod_jk.log"
JkLogLevel emerg
<VirtualHost localhost>
ServerName localhost
JkMount /examples ajp13
JkMount /examples/* ajp13
JkMount /host-manager ajp13
JkMount /host-manager/* ajp13
JkMount /docs ajp13
JkMount /docs/* ajp13
JkMount /manager ajp13
JkMount /manager/* ajp13
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>
The first problem is that there is no mod_jk.so in the "/Xampp/tomcat/Xampp/apache/modules" directory. It is compeltely empty. The second problem is that the config was auto-generated upon tomcat server start. Lastly, every time the tomcat server is restarted, this config file is generated again automatically ... with the wrong data.
I have a temporary fix in place.
I stopped the tomcat server and then changed the data in the "\Xampp\tomcat\conf\auto\mod_jk.conf" file to read:
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<IfModule !mod_jk.c>
LoadModule jk_module "/Xampp/apache/modules/mod_jk.so"
JkWorkersFile "/Xampp/tomcat/conf/jk/workers.properties"
JkLogFile "/Xampp/tomcat/logs/mod_jk.log"
JkLogLevel emerg
<VirtualHost localhost>
ServerName localhost
JkMount /examples ajp13
JkMount /examples/* ajp13
JkMount /host-manager ajp13
JkMount /host-manager/* ajp13
JkMount /docs ajp13
JkMount /docs/* ajp13
JkMount /manager ajp13
JkMount /manager/* ajp13
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>
I then saved the file and changed the file attributes to READ ONLY.
This is preventing the file from being changed upon tomcat server start, and is allowing Apache to start and not abort abnormally.
I would like anyone's feedback as to why this is happening, and if I can correct it without using this temporary fix. What worries me is that the config was pointing to a copy of the mod_jk.so file in the "/Xampp/tomcat/Xampp/apache/modules" directory. This directory structure exists.. but is empty. I know it should be looking by default to the correct directory of "/Xampp/apache/modules".
Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
