IIS and Tomcat … no end of problems.

Ok … I give.  Uncle.  I am through working on this for now, it is far too much wasting of time.

I have been trying, since Friday, to get IIS working with either Apache
(on the same box) or Tomcat (via the JK connectors).  I am able to
get Apache using port 81 to work, however now I have to deal with the
non-standard port issues.  So I found this nifty
isapi_redirect.dll that is supposed to allow me to connect IIS to
Tomcat directly!  No Apache required …

Yeah … right!

I have now spent almost eight additional hours working on this, and
have got nowhere.  The code, installation, and configuration are
simply poorly documented and do not work as described.  On top of
this, no matter what I do, I am unable to get *any* form of logging out
of the isapi_redirector.  I have been hand-hacking the registry,
and it seems to be working … to a point.  The IIS web logs
indicate that the defined URIs are being sent to the .dll … however
all I get are 404 not found errors.

I have now tried both the JK and JK2 versions of this thing … and
they both behave in a similar manner.  I’m stuck for now, and hope
that some day I am able to uncover the deep mystery of why this stupid
thing just won’t work.

I’m somewhat comforted by the posts that I have found all over the web
that seem to express the same feelings … no support, poor
documentation, inconsistenf operation.  It’s too bad … it would
be a nice solution for me!

Leave a Reply