RE: [Aimmath-developers] installlin.html

[Gustav W D. <gu...@ma...>]

> I guess I didn't understand all the discussion about this. Are you saying
> that the default server.xml that Tomcat provides was ok as it was?

At least in current versions of Tomcat, yes.

> Does it by default use port 8080? Is that why the default has been changed
> from 80 to 8080?

During the installation Tomcat gave me the option to set the port. The
default
value provided by the installation was 8080. I don't know whether the Tomcat
installation script was so intelligent to notice that I already had a web
server
on port 80. I just assumed Tomcat would always choose 8080. What default
port did it
give you?

>I was going to add some comments about this, as if one
> already has an installation using port 80, one has to remember to set that
> in ManualConfig.mpl ... otherwise admin.html, index.html and
> DefaultZone.mpl (in root/) are set with :8080 in their paths, and if one
> adds port 80 to ManualConfig.mpl afterwards and reruns AutocConfig.mpl
> these files are not rewritten (and you have to manually change them).

Yes, you are right, something like that should be added to the instructions.

> Is there an advantage to using port 8080 instead of port 80?

Probably not if 80 is still free. However I have heard that on unix one
needs
superuser privileges to install a server on port 80 but not for installing
one
on port 8080. But as I said, I know nothing about unix.

> > I will make sure that I upload the java and tomcat installation files to
> > aimmath.sourceforge.net. It may have to wait until Monday though.

Actually, I changed my mind. I would prefer not to upload the JDK with its
35MB.
Sourceforge only gives us 100MB alltogether for the site. It seems to me
that
users who are sophisticated enough to want to be able to recompile the java
sources
will be competent enough to get the installation file directly from sun.

I have uploaded the JRE and Tomcat already. You might want to check that
they are
alright.

Gustav