Here's what I am trying to do, unless I am crazy:
I am trying to use Tomcat with the multiple workers, so far I got OpenBD working, but having trouble with Railo, and will be tackling Adobe after.

• each engine deployed as a war
• separated by different workers
• I wanted to keep both the sites and engines inside my sites directory
• I have to remap the symlink for the WEB-INF when I switch engines = have not found a way around this

my thought is to have everything separated into modules and I want to be able to execute both cfm and php code in a single site.  Ideally, it would be amazing if there would be a way to not have to remap the symlink as well.

thoughts? can this be done? I am trying to mimic how this would be setup on a live server, not using eclipse for example. here is what I am working with so far:

my apache workers.properties

worker.list=openbd, openbdadmin, railo, railoadmin 
worker.openbd.type=ajp13 
worker.openbd.host=local.mydev.openbd
  worker.openbd.port=8009

worker.openbdadmin.type=ajp13 
worker.openbdadmin.host=local.admin.openbd
worker.openbdadmin.port=8009  

worker.railo.type=ajp13
  worker.railo.host=local.mydev.railo
  worker.railo.port=8009

worker.railoadmin.type=ajp13 
worker.railoadmin.host=local.admin.railo
worker.railoadmin.port=8009  

my tomcat servers.xml
< Host name="local.admin.openbd" appBase="/Users/[myusername]/Websites/coldfusion.engines"  unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="true" xmlNamespaceAware="false">       
< Context path="" docBase="openbd/" reloadable="true" privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false" anitJARLocking="false" allowLinking="true">

< /Host>
      

< Host name="local.admin.railo"   appBase="/Users/[my username]/Websites/coldfusion.engines" unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="true" xmlNamespaceAware="false">       
< Context path="" docBase="railo/" 
reloadable="true" privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false" anitJARLocking="false" allowLinking="true">

< /Host>

< Host name="local.mydev.openbd"   appBase="/Users/[my username]/Websites/coldfusion.engines" unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="true" xmlNamespaceAware="false">

< Context path="" docBase="/Users/[my username]/Websites/example.mydev/wwwroot/" 
reloadable="true" privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false" anitJARLocking="false" allowLinking="true">< /Context>

< /Host>

< Host name="local.mydev.railo"   appBase="/Users/[my username]/Websites/coldfusion.engines"  unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="true" xmlNamespaceAware="false">

< Context path="" docBase="/Users/[my username]/Websites/example.mydev/wwwroot/" 
reloadable="true" privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false" anitJARLocking="false" allowLinking="true">

< /Host>

my apache vhosts

ServerName local.admin.openbd
DocumentRoot /Users/[my username]/Websites/coldfusion.engines/openBD/
#Mount OpenBD and tell it to only server cfml files
JkMount /*.cfm openbdadmin
ErrorLog "/Users/[my username]/Websites/apache.logs/local_openbdadmin_error.log"


ServerName local.admin.railo
DocumentRoot /Users/[my username]/Websites/coldfusion.engines/railo/
#Mount Railo and tell it to only server cfml files
JkMount /*.cfm railoadmin
ErrorLog "/Users/[my username]/Websites/apache.logs/local_railoadmin_error.log"

ServerName local.mydev
DocumentRoot /Users/[my username]/Websites/example.mydev/wwwroot
ErrorLog "/Users/[my username]/Websites/apache.logs/local_example_mydev_error.log"

ServerName local.mydev.openbd
DocumentRoot /Users/[my username]/Websites/example.mydev/wwwroot
#Mount OpenBD and tell it to only server cfml files
JkMount /*.cfm openbd
ErrorLog "/Users/[my username]/Websites/apache.logs/local_example_mydev_openbd_error.log"


ServerName local.mydev.railo
DocumentRoot /Users/[my username]/Websites/example.mydev/wwwroot
JkMount /*.cfm railo
ErrorLog "/Users/[my username]/Websites/apache.logs/local_example_mydev_railo_error.log"

my folder structure I am using

websites/apache.logs/
websites/coldfusion.engines/
websites/coldfusion.engines/cfusion/
websites/coldfusion.engines/openBD/
websites/coldfusion.engines/railo/
websites/example.mydev/
websites/example.mydev/wwwroot/
websites/example.mydev/wwwroot/index.cfm  
websites/example.mydev/wwwroot/index.htm  
websites/example.mydev/wwwroot/index.php  

error log output [Thu Aug 27 00:54:50.443 2009] [11279:2686719776] [info] init_jk::mod_jk.c (3183): mod_jk/1.2.28 initialized

[Thu Aug 27 00:54:51.346 2009] [11280:2686719776] [info] init_jk::mod_jk.c (3183): mod_jk/1.2.28 initialized

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:18.963 2009] [11284:2686719776] [info] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (594): connect to 127.0.0.1:8009 failed (errno=61)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:18.963 2009] [11284:2686719776] [info] ajp_connect_to_endpoint::jk_ajp_common.c (922): Failed opening socket to (127.0.0.1:8009) (errno=61)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:18.963 2009] [11284:2686719776] [error] ajp_send_request::jk_ajp_common.c (1507): (openbdadmin) connecting to backend failed. Tomcat is probably not started or is listening on the wrong port (errno=61)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:18.963 2009] [11284:2686719776] [info] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2447): (openbdadmin) sending request to tomcat failed (recoverable), because of error during request sending (attempt=1)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:19.063 2009] [11284:2686719776] [info] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (594): connect to 127.0.0.1:8009 failed (errno=61)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:19.063 2009] [11284:2686719776] [info] ajp_connect_to_endpoint::jk_ajp_common.c (922): Failed opening socket to (127.0.0.1:8009) (errno=61)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:19.063 2009] [11284:2686719776] [error] ajp_send_request::jk_ajp_common.c (1507): (openbdadmin) connecting to backend failed. Tomcat is probably not started or is listening on the wrong port (errno=61)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:19.063 2009] [11284:2686719776] [info] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2447): (openbdadmin) sending request to tomcat failed (recoverable), because of error during request sending (attempt=2)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:19.063 2009] [11284:2686719776] [error] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2466): (openbdadmin) connecting to tomcat failed.

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:19.063 2009] [11284:2686719776] [info] jk_handler::mod_jk.c (2615): Service error=-3 for worker=openbdadmin

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:20.377 2009] [11283:2686719776] [info] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (594): connect to 127.0.0.1:8009 failed (errno=61)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:20.377 2009] [11283:2686719776] [info] ajp_connect_to_endpoint::jk_ajp_common.c (922): Failed opening socket to (127.0.0.1:8009) (errno=61)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:20.377 2009] [11283:2686719776] [error] ajp_send_request::jk_ajp_common.c (1507): (railoadmin) connecting to backend failed. Tomcat is probably not started or is listening on the wrong port (errno=61)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:20.377 2009] [11283:2686719776] [info] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2447): (railoadmin) sending request to tomcat failed (recoverable), because of error during request sending (attempt=1)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:20.477 2009] [11283:2686719776] [info] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (594): connect to 127.0.0.1:8009 failed (errno=61)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:20.477 2009] [11283:2686719776] [info] ajp_connect_to_endpoint::jk_ajp_common.c (922): Failed opening socket to (127.0.0.1:8009) (errno=61)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:20.477 2009] [11283:2686719776] [error] ajp_send_request::jk_ajp_common.c (1507): (railoadmin) connecting to backend failed. Tomcat is probably not started or is listening on the wrong port (errno=61)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:20.477 2009] [11283:2686719776] [info] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2447): (railoadmin) sending request to tomcat failed (recoverable), because of error during request sending (attempt=2)

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:20.477 2009] [11283:2686719776] [error] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2466): (railoadmin) connecting to tomcat failed.

[Thu Aug 27 00:55:20.477 2009] [11283:2686719776] [info] jk_handler::mod_jk.c (2615): Service error=-3 for worker=railoadmin