Intro

Each component instance has a name, that is used for configuration and at runtime. Each component has a number of configurable properties. The following rules are used:

• The name is composed from the type and a local part, separated with a ':' ( example: channel.unixsocket:/tmp/jk.socket )
• The 'type' consist of '.' and ascii characters. It is mapped to a JMX 'domain'.
• The local part consists of ascii characters and .:/;
• The property is a simple name, with no dots.
• A simple form of substitution is used in values, where $(property) will be replaced with a previously defined setting. If the property has ':' in it, it'll take the value from the object, if not it'll take the value from a global map.

Common properties

Common properties for all components

workerEnv

This component represent the core jk2, it has the default logger for all other components. Is the central controller, it controls global properties and provides access to all other objects

config

The config component, hold the detail of the conifg system, such config file name, create global defines

uriMap

shm

Shared memory descriptor

uri

A uri stores a pattern that is used to match requests to workers, and asociated properties

If the uri name doesn't have a slash then it is considered as a virtual host directive. Uri name can have a virtual host name and(or) port associated with. Format of such a name is hostname or hostname:port where hostname is virtual server name and the port is vitual server port number. The port number is used only for the non default server ports.

Special case is a default server named as [uri:*] that is used when the virtual host cannot be found inside the configuration. All the uri directives not containing host name belongs to this default server making global mappings.

Addition wild char scheme id [uri:*:port] that is used when you wish to match any virtual host having specified (non-default) port number, like [uri:*:443]. This will map all the virtual hosts no mather what is their name but that have port number 443.

The order how the host names are resolved is :

• Exact host name and optional non default port number
• Alias matching host name and port number
• *:port if the port is other then default
• Default server

vm

Represents the JVM when used as inprocess container

channels

A channel represents a transport protocol, connecting 2 sides for RPC communication. The most common and standard is the tcp socket. Other important channels are unix socket and jni

channel.un

AF_UNIX socket. Only on UNIX like platform. These sockets are faster than "normal" sockets but they are limited to the machine.

channel.socket

Defines a communication transport to a remote Servlet Engine.

The name of the channels should be: channel.socket:HOST:PORT, where HOST and PORT are the tomcat Ajp location. You could use other names and explicitely set HOST and PORT, but this is discouraged. In most cases, you don't need to set any other config - just add a line like [channel.socket:localhost:8009] and all other things will have good defaults.

Tomcat Engine must be set with jvmRoute="HOST:PORT", to match the default tomcatId of the channel.

channel.apr

A communication transport to a remote Engine using APR library Magic: The local part of the name will be the Engine name, to use when defining the uri mappings. For example channel.apr.local_9009 will automatically define an engine named local_9009, and if no other setting is set ajp13 will be used for communication. Magic: If no channel is defined in the config, a default channel will be constructed with port=8009, engine=DEFAULT, worker=ajp13 - named 'channel.apr.DEFAULT'

channel.jni

The jni channel, used if tomcat is started inprocess

workers

For the moment 4 worker types are supported: worker.jni,ajp13,status,lb.

worker.jni

worker used in inprocess, holds the details of the Tomcat class to startup, and parameters to pass

There are two predefined jni workers onStartup and onShutdown . Those two workers are executed during startup and shutdown phase of the connector. Both must exists in the configuration to be able to start and shutdown Tomcat.

ajp13

Default worker

status

Worker that outputs a page with usefull information to monitor JK2

To use it add a uri component assigned to this worker

lb

Loadbalanced worker

loggers

Any connector based on jk2, at least has a default logger, that can be reached using the "logger" alias, the logger used is the more appropiate for the plataform/server combination, Apache2 under in any platform has logger.apache2 as default, IIS on his only platform uses logger.win32, and Any apache 1 install uses logger.file as default.., the config file lets you change that defaults, you can end using logger.file in IIs i.e

The properties shared by all loggers are:

logger.file

logger.win32

logger used in the IIS server by default, it ends at native Application Event Log.

logger.apache2

Logger used in Apache2 servers, it normally in ends in error.log