Steep learning curve.
Spent most of the day learning about the two modules mod_jk and mod_rewrite with little VP evident, but plenty of learning done.

For the time being, the server listens for http://rutabaga.hcmc.uvic.ca/ and grabs docs from the RAID array's htdocs directory. Any php/html docs will live in here, preferably with a <project_name> directory to house it. Servlets relying on port 8080/Tomcat (for our purposes, Cocoon apps) are handled by a JkMount directive in the httpd config file.

Each app needs an entry consisting of the servlet name and the worker set to handle it. Workers are declared in a workers.properties file, located in the same directory as the apache config files (although it gets declared explicitly in the httpd config file, so it can really be anywhere).

**more to come