i figured out that it is easier to set up helma and apache on suse 8.4. then described here.

1. follow item 2 und 3 from here
2. edit /etc/httpd/modules/tomcat such that the last line reads Include:/[path/to]/jk/mod_jk.conf
3. use yast to configure your server to use tomcat. (remark: of course, you don't use tomcat. this setting only puts this file into the apache config file.)

that's it. make sure you define the mountpoint for antville to the path /helma or whatever you define in mod_jk.conf.

Addition: 4. If you want to use rewrite rules for nice url, move the line LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache/mod_rewrite.so after Include /etc/httpd/suse_loadmodule.conf and the line AddModule mod_rewrite.c after Include /etc/httpd/suse_addmodule.conf

there is only one problem: for some reason the css and js cannot be found. looks like the css and js macro do not take the mountpoint into account.

you mean that the urls to the external stylesheet and js file differ from the rest of the urls? can you post an example here?