How to get the mod_jk connector for Apache

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Tony

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If you want to run Tomcat from behind Apache as many people do then you need to find a method of sending requests from Apache to Tomcat. One of the popular mechanisms is to use “mod_jk”. The problem is that Apache or httpd does not generally come with mod_jk.

I had this problem when I upgraded to Apache 2.4 recently and could not find a binary mod_jk for Fedora 18. Actually I was running Apache HTTP server 2.4, Tomcat 6.0.35, Java 1.6.0_23 and Fedora 18. I spent a lot of time looking and started to find a few articles on building mod_jk. I came to the conclusion that if you run Apache and Tomcat on Linux then you can probably build it yourself.

You know what………. actually it’s pretty easy 😎

Resources

Build MOD_JK connector
http://www.openscope.net/2010/01/02/install-mod_jk/

Tomcat website
http://tomcat.apache.org/

Apache HTTP server website
http://projects.apache.org/projects/http_server.html

Tomcat mod_jk connector
http://tomcat.apache.org/download-connectors.cgi

Steps

1. Download the Tomcat connector from the Tomcat mod_jk connector page. In my case I downloaded “tomcat-connectors-1.2.37-src.tar.gz”
2. Copy to a directory, in my case “/tmp/mod_jk” and run

tar -zxvf tomcat-connectors-1.2.37-src.tar.gz
3. After extracting the gzip file move to the new “native” directory. In my case 

/tmp/mod_jk/tomcat-connectors-1.2.37-src/native
4. You need to find out where apsx is on your system. Often this comes with the “httpd-devel” RPM. You can check by finding httpd-devel in YumEx and looking for the packaged files. In my case it was at: 

/usr/bin/apsx
5. From the same directory “native” run:

./configure --with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs
make
make install

You should find a copy of “mod_jk.so” with your other Apache modules which in my case was:

/usr/lib/httpd/modules

 

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