migrating apache2 & tomcat from linux to windows

Hi, I need to migrate a host of websites built on a Content Managment System from a linux machine, to a windows machine.

I have copied all the neccesary files from the Linux box over to the new server. I've installed Apache HTTP Server 2.0.49 & Jakarta Tomcat 4.1.30 with the mod_jk.dll connector. From then on, I am pretty lost and simply looking online from where to proceed.

Please give any suggestions on how to proceed with this..

Thanks

What's the problem? Do apache and tomcat seem to be working together? If so, I'd think you'd just dump your site files in the right place and be done. If you're having a specific problem with something you're trying, post more details and maybe somebody can offer some help.

Ok, I've copied all the files over to new structures... all sites are located in c:/www/apache2/hosts

I've changed the hosts.conf and http.conf to match the directory structure.

Now I have another question. This site that I am migrating is live on a rackspace.com server. Before we close down that account, I obviously have to make sure the site will run on the new server. The rackspace server is sitting on a public ip, all the hostnames are registered to point back to it.

For testing purposes, I would like to be able to view the sites on the server on my LAN. THe ip is 192.168.0.3. I've been going through all the config files changing the public ip address to the local server's ip. Will this way work? why or why not? Any advice on how to do this would be great.

Also, when I attempt go to http://servername on my network through another computer, it redirects me to our public server. I probably missed something.. i'll go check.

Thanks,

You'll need to add a hosts file or something else that your local system hits to try to resolve the domain; in such a file, you'll alias the domain name to the server on your LAN. By default, systems tend to try to resolve names using DNS unless there's some other method defined. Exactly how to go about setting up such an alias depends on what kind of system you're testing this from (On linux, add an entry to /etc/hosts; on Windows, you should be able to add a hosts file in your system folder -- there was another post about this very recently in which you should be able to find the Windows solution.)

dhouston, are you knowledgable about Jakarta Tomcat, and the server.xml?


I have created the appropriate DNS configurations so the address links to the internal network, but know the Tomcat service won't start. I'm checking the logs, but wanted to see if I should get advice elsewhere for this.

I helped set up a tomcat installation once but had very little to do with it and don't remember much about the process (except that it was a royal pain). You'll probably do better to look for a tomcat-specific forum, though if you'll post the error you get when you try to start the service, maybe somebody on this forum can provide some insight.