apache

Ok, I've been following the instructions given by IBM on the developerworks area in their site. They created those tutorials using Suse and they said that other distributions can work as well; one of them being Ubuntu. Well things seem to go well and I've experienced some slight differences, but I've run into a small problem with the Apache configuration. Their main config file on Suse is found in /etc/sysconfig/apache2 while Ubuntu doesn't have a sysconfig folder. When you download all of the software you need for apache2, it creates it's own apache2 folder so it's path is /etc/apache2. The main config file is apache2.config, but IBM tells you to do this:

As of this week, gridsphere V 2.1.4 and gridportlets are running. Tomcat version is 5.0.X. Apache version is 2.2.2

• gridportlet as SP must be apache protected ->
  
  
  
  • install and configure mod_jk 4.1.30 (as ajp1.3)
    
    
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      Description of Connector Protocol
      
    • be sure mod_jk.so is installed (via RPM)
      
    • create mod_jk.conf in /etc/apache2 and Include in httpd.conf
      
      NOTE: skipped steps to secure WEB-INF Directory

  • Reconfigure gridsphere so that tomcat connector is used (5/10/06)

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By default Apache 2.0 wraps the ssl server portion of it's configuration file in and directive. The IfDefined directive checks for values set by the -D command line option when apache was started. This means that "SSL" must be set on the command line when apache is started, otherwise the server will skip the ssl section of the configuration file and not listen on port 443.

The default way to start apache (or otherwise control apache) is with the apachectl command. This command is found in the directory $PREFIX/bin, where $PREFIX is the install prefix defined at compile time. When building from the source tarball, this is usually /usr/local/apache2/bin.