I've got Apache running on my server, and some VHosts set up for myself through this; however, the apache documentRoot, nor any VHost's documentRoot appear to be calling tomcat to process any JSP files - in order to run a JSP, I need to upload it as a war archive, and access it via domain:8080.
Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction on getting tomcat set up so that it can process JSP files as normal?
Answering my own question on this, as neither solution offered what I was looking for.
Firstly, I downloaded and compiled the apache mod jk_serv; following this, I configured a worker, under workers.properties with the following;
workers.tomcat_home=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.50
workers.java_home=/opt/jdk1.7.0_51/
ps=/
worker.list=ajp13_worker
worker.ajp13_worker.port=8009
worker.ajp13_worker.host=localhost
worker.ajp13_worker.type=ajp13
worker.ajp13_worker.lbfactor=1
worker.loadbalancer.type=lb
worker.loadbalancer.balance_workers=ajp13_worker
Following this, under apache's conf.d, I set up a worker config to be loaded by apache, as follows;
LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so
JkWorkersFile /etc/httpd/conf/workers.properties
JkLogFile /var/log/httpd/mod_jk_log
JkShmFile /var/log/httpd/jk-runtime-status
JkWatchdogInterval 60
JkLogLevel info
JkMountCopy All
# all the contexts:
JkMount / worker1
JkMount /*.jsp worker1
Finally, I set up a script that would update tomcat's server.xml, to add any relevant vHosts that were added to httpd.conf.
With this, jsp files are now processed on-the-fly; without the need for uploading seperate WAR's.