Integrating Apache and Tomcat

Having experimented with Tomcat standalone, I'm now ready to try and
integrate it with Apache. All the documentation I can find seems to
assume varying degrees of contextual background knowledge and frankly
my head is spinning. Does anyone know of a step-by-step guide? Failing
that, are there any good books on the subject?

I'm currently running Apache 2.0.54 and Tomcat 5.5.25, but would be
happy to update these versions if necessary. (What I can't change is
the operating system: Windows XP Pro SP2).

On 12 Oct, 13:01, Davide Bianchi <davideyeahs....DeleteThis@onlyforfun.net>
wrote:
> On 2007-10-12, Clive Backham <goo....DeleteThis@delback.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Having experimented with Tomcat standalone, I'm now ready to try and
> > integrate it with Apache. All the documentation I can find seems to
> > assume varying degrees of contextual background knowledge and frankly
> > my head is spinning.
>
> Well, Apache is a web-server, Tomcat is jave servlet container, if
> you can't wrap your head around those two, maybe you're in the wrong
> business...

I am well aware what Apache and Tomcat are, but will admit to being a
beginner when it comes to the latter, and all the documentation I've
found so far just isn't very well written. I have a long history of
complex CGI programming, but feel that I should move with the times
and embrace JSP and servlet technology.

> > Does anyone know of a step-by-step guide?
>
> See http://www.soft-land.org/faq/tomcat

Thanks for that pointer. It did help. I now have Apache passing JSP
requests through to Tomcat.