apache v. tomcat mysteries…

So I struggled for hours trying to get apache to connect via the ajp13 worker to tomcat 5.5 We are using a Debian box on the production server. Could not make it happen…. until I set the worker to be ‘ajp13′.

Don’t understand what wierdness is going on but… I do know this. if my /etc/libapache-mod-jk/workers.properties file looks like this (comments removed):

workers.tomcat_home=/usr/share/tomcat5.5
workers.java_home=/usr/local/java
worker.list=ajp13
worker.ajp13.port=8009
worker.ajp13.host=localhost
worker.ajp13.type=ajp13
worker.ajp13.lbfactor=1
worker.loadbalancer.type=lb
worker.loadbalancer.balanced_workers=ajp13

Apache 2 talks very nicely with Tomcat 5.5.20

If it looks like this:

workers.tomcat_home=/usr/share/tomcat5.5
workers.java_home=/usr/local/java
worker.list=amplafi_ajp13
worker.amplafi_ajp13.port=8009
worker.amplafi_ajp13.host=localhost
worker.amplafi_ajp13.type=ajp13
worker.amplafi_ajp13.lbfactor=1
worker.loadbalancer.type=lb
worker.loadbalancer.balanced_workers=amplafi_ajp13

Everything is broken!

Does anyone have a clue here on why?

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