Maybe you could specify the following:
Modifications to httpd.conf, and where you placed those
mod_jk.conf, or the relevant httpd.conf include, and its location
any other files included in the above, like workers.properties.
#module jakarta tomcat
LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so
#jakarta tomcat
<IfModule mod_jk.c>
JkWorkersFile "/usr/local/tomcat/conf/tomcat.properties"
</IfModule>
<VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:80>
...
...
JkMount /*/servlet/* worker1
JkMount /*.jsp worker1
</VirtualHost>
Include /usr/local/tomcat/conf/auto/mod_jk.conf
JkWorkersFile /usr/local/tomcat/conf/tomcat.properties
JkLogFile /var/log/httpd/mod_jk.log
JkLogLevel info
JkLogStampFormat "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y]"
JkOptions +ForwardKeySize +ForwardURICompat -ForwardDirectories
JkRequestLogFormat "%w %V %T"
<LocationMatch '.*WEB-INF.*'>
AllowOverride None
deny from all
</LocationMatch>
You specified a howto, which is on a different system. You cant really have followed it. (You wouldnt get a 500, you would get plaintext code).
You are correct if I run
http://webserver/date.jsp I get
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, admin@tdb.biz and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
If I run
http://webserver:8085/date.jspHTTP Status 404 - /date.jsp
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type Status report
message /date.jsp
description The requested resource (/date.jsp) is not available.
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Apache Tomcat/5.5.12
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
The both the httpd and tomcat logs do not seem have any errors .
Usually a 500 error with jsp is mod_jk connecting to tomcat, when tomcat isnt up...
Because tomcat is running, on some port, mod_jk is most likely looking at the wrong place.
Independently both httpd and tomcat seem to be working but from different directories and ports.
Thanks for you help, I had hoped this would be fairly easy to setup as only need to get tomcat to work on default directory to process jsp files.