I'm not an expert but I don't want another webserver on my server. I am already running apache2 build vea TSW (opensorce) with java and I was wondering if someone more familer with this system (that being dimensionex) would tell me how to go about installing it on TSW in your read me in the zip file it stats for installation on a webserver that is not tomcat referr to are webpage.

... I can't find any documentation on your webpage.

You can reach me at admin@hfs.cjb.net or just reply here.

meanwhile I am going to go see if I can make a complet mess of things and get it working anyway.

Hi Viper,
if your Apache+ server can run Java servlets, then it should be possible to run DimensioneX on it.

If not, the only way is to plug the tomcat software in it.

Can you let me have an URL to where you downloaded it? Perhaps I can take a look at the technical docs and bring you a definitive answer.

Cheers

TSW is on SourceForge

http://sourceforge.net/projects/yawamp/

If that was what you was talking about. I have the latest stable build of it.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ackage_id=90856

Hi Viper,
I checked their website.
It seems TSW is simply a bundle of the Apache webserver plus 3 scripting languages (PERL,Pyton and PHP) for creating dynamic pages, 2 relational DBs and a few other free tools.

Their FAQ was in german only but, thanks to Google translation, I was able to understand that YSW does not include management of Java objects, such as the capability to run JSP/Servlets. They say they may add it in future releases.

Unfortunately, having Java on your machine is not enough unless your webserver knows how to deal with java servlets like the DimX engine.

However please note that - although it can be used as a little webserver on his own - Tomcat was born as a module for Apache, under the "Jakarta" subproject (just check on tomcat.org). So, installing it won't make any conflicts but just adds the java capability that your Apache misses.

While your Apache will continue to work as normal, Tomcat will deal with Java objects on port 8080.
Integration between Tomcat and Apache is also documented on their site if you're interested into.

So, my advice go ahead and give a try of Tomcat+DimX. Note that our games server is exactly in the same situation as yours (Apache+tomcat, check www.gamesclan.it). Never had any problems or slowdowns.

Cheers

I will give it a go and see how it comes out, but mind you with TSW I have to run two instances of Apache so if to run tomcat I have to run another one I just won't flow.

:) I can guarantee no additional apache needs to be run. Let me know how it works.