[mapserver-users] Q: MapServer(ms4w) works with tomcat instead of apache

[Andrew Mason]

Hello,

Tomcat and Apache are very different things, and while there is  
certainly a degree of overlap in what Apache Httpd and Apache Tomcat  
can be used for, the way the two applications actually operate is  
very different.
Without going in to too much detail here, Tomcat is essentially a  
J2EE application container, not a webserver and applications are  
written using the Java programming  language. You'd normally never  
use Tomcat to serve files in the way you'd use Apache httpd. You'd  
normally delegate such a task to a webserver. And there really isn't  
much of an issue about having the two servers installed, we sorted  
out the port conflict issues a while back.
Excuse any slight errors here, I've only been using Mapserver a few  
weeks myself, but my understanding is that Mapserver essentially a  
set of C libraries that are accessible via CGI. You can also access  
these via  PHP, Python and others even Java it seems, using  
mapscript. But being able to script in Java is still a long way from  
being able to deploy to a servlet container like Tomcat.

If you really want to avoid installing Apache httpd, then you might  
find Geoserver useful, as it is a Java web application, and deploying  
it to Tomcat is really easy.
But I would recommend trying Apache Httpd, as it's not particularly  
difficult to get to grips with.

Hope this helps,

regards

Andrew Mason


On 4 Jun 2008, at 10:12, Zhao Ying (CDU) wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> I’m Jeff from Sichuan, China. I have a question about how to  
> configure MapServer so that it could be
>
> able to work with apache-tomcat-5.5.26 instead of apache by  
> default. Since I’ve already had tomcat 5.5.26
>
> installed on my computer and tomcat is well known as both Web  
> server and application server,
>
> it seems there’s no need to install one more web server – apache.  
> Furthermore, more web servers, more
>
> possibilities to conflict, such as listing ports …, right?
>
>
>
> Could somebody provide a solution in details on how to achieve  
> this? Thanks!! ~~
>
>
>
>
>
> Btw, my computer environment:
>
> Windows XP;
>
> JDK 1.4;
>
> apache-tomcat-5.5.26; installed on c:\ apache-tomcat-5.5.26
>
> ms4w_2.2.7.zip downloaded from http://maptools.org/ms4w/ and  
> unzipped to c:\ms4w
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff.
>
>
>
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