Topic: Servlet Mapping in Tomact w/ Apache

[tk]

I can't seem to get my mind around this problem. I am running Tomcat 5.0 w/ Apache 2.2. Everything is working well enough... I can access the Apache server with http://localhost. I can access the tomcat server with http://localhost:1642, with 1642 being the port I set tomcat to listen on. mod_proxy is working well and I have no problem processing .jsp files. So here's the issue...

I'm starting to put servlets into tomcat now. I'm starting with just simple servlets so I can check progress and make sure I understand how tomcat works as much as anything else. Anyway, here's an example of what has me confused....

I have a servlet named CounterCat, which is a simple servlet to test session persistence. I've compiled it and added the package to ROOT\WEB_INF\classes, and I've updated the WEB_INF web.xml file to map the servlet. The mapping is listed below...

<servlet>
<servlet-name>CounterCat</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.ffd.session.CounterCat</servlet-class>
</servlet>
...
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>CounterCat</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/countercat</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Now, when I call the servlet directly from tomcat....

http://localhost:1642/countercat

It runs beautifully. What I want to know how I can call this servlet from Apache. http://localhost/countercat generates a 404 error. This makes sense as Apache has no way of knowing what countercat is. I've tried changing the url-pattern to servlet/servletname thinking that the "servlet/" would cause Apache to pass the request on to tomcat, but the 404 is still from Apache. I'm guessing I need to add another rewrite rule to httpd so it sends anything with servlet/ to tomcat, but I really struggle to understand the perl expressions there. Any help would be appreciated.