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Blojsom on Tomcat 5.5.9 with mod_jk

It looks like it is impossible to have permalinks (and comment and who knows what else) working in Blojsom, which runs on port 80 through mod_jk on Tomcat 5.5.9 (in my case).
All permalinks work from localhost only when they look like this:
http://localhost/blojsom/blog/kyrylkov/JBuilder/2005/06/21/JBuilder_2006.html
instead of
http://www.mpxsys.com/blojsom/blog/kyrylkov/JBuilder/2005/06/21/JBuilder_2006.html
In this second case I end up with “File not found” [...]

Liferay Portal on Tomcat 5.5.x and Tomcat 5.0.x

I don’t know what kind of support policy Liferay advocates, but we arenot going to use their product for the following reasons:

It seems impossible to find out how or whether it is possible to run Liferay Portal with Tomcat 5.5.x I’ve checked their mailing list, forum, web site – nothing. Some people asked about Tomcat [...]

Installing JK Connector on Fedora Core 3 with Tomcat 5.5.x and Apache 2.0.x

In order to build JK Connector on Fedora Core 3, httpd-devel package containing apxs must be installed.
First, download JK Connector sources from http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/tomcat-connectors/jk/source/
Next, go to jk/native directory and execute the following commands to build the connector:
./configure –with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs
make
su -c “make install”
Last, go to /etc/httpd/conf.d and create jk.conf file with the following example contents:
LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so

JkWorkersFile /opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/conf/workers.properties.minimal
JkLogFile [...]

SEVERE: Error listenerStart

Just found how strangely Tomcat 5.5.9 running on JDK 1.4.x reacts to the fact that a web application was compiled with JDK 5.0 Instead of showing some meaningful error the record in catalina.out looks like this:
Apr 26, 2005 6:29:52 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
Apr 26, 2005 6:29:52 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/cm] startup failed due [...]