first, you don't need tomcat. helma has jetty built in, and jetty has an ajp13-connector so you can directly connect apache with jetty via mod_jk.

so follow helma.org and after that you might want to include rewrite-rules in your httpd.conf for sending just those requests that should be handled by helma via mod_jk to it, but let apache handle the static files (images, goodies ...) eg. put rewrite rules like these into your httpd.conf:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule   ^/antville/images(.*)     /antville/images$1 [L]
RewriteRule   ^/antville/files(.*)      /antville/files$1  [L]
RewriteRule   ^/(.*)                    /helma/$1           [L,PT]

this means that all requests for images and files will be handled by apache (since they are not helma's business), but all other requests will be sent to helma (via mod_jk, assuming that you have a JkMount which is called /helma).

nex and robert. Regarding this paragraph:

4. edit your helma start script by adding the option "-jk 8009" to it: java -classpath [jars] helma.main.Server -w [web-port] -x [xmlrpc-port] -jk 8009 (you eventually could leave away the -w option now.)

this line isn't included in hop.sh. Instead I modified:

HTTP_PORT=80 XMLRPC_PORT=8081 AJP13_PORT=8009

RMI_PORT=5050

hop tells me there is already a server running on port 80. This apparently is apache, but I thought it will automagically ok thanks to the connector. Any ideas? Thanks!

comment out the option HTTP_PORT=80, then everything will work fine. you don't need two webservers on one port, one will be enough ;-)

[dumb me].. of course you're right, robert. I also got my JkMount wrong, but thats now over. Now I just have to find the admin-entrypoint again, the one you get to if you install antville for the first time... onto the searchbox!

sorry Boolean, i was thinking along too complicated lines. i thought you knew about the application container alternatives and explicitly wanted to use tomcat for some reason, as you mentioned "switching from jetty to apache". however, i can confirm that it runs very fine without :-)

maybe i did something wrong but i exactly get this error message "/helma/" not found on the server wich is listed on the end of the mailing-list-articel... any idea?