Hi Andrew, We let all our Tomcats run on a non-privileged port and use some init script using startup.sh/shutdown.sh, and have an Apache httpd forwarding requests with AJP.
We then use Apache httpd for things like terminating SSL, do RADIUS or LDAP authentication, load balancing several Tomcat instances and so on. I think it is a good and common setup like that. Torsten -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Feller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30. oktober 2008 18:16 To: users@tomcat.apache.org Cc: Brad Cupit Subject: JSVC vs standard startup / shutdown scripts QUESTION: What is the best practice for running Tomcat? JSVC daemon or startup / shutdown scripts as a non-root user and forwarding HTTPS requests to a non-privileged port? While reading the Professional Apache Tomcat 6 (ISBN: 978-0-471-75361-2), they recommend running Tomcat to start it up using the startup script provided in the Tomcat binary and having your firewall forward requests from HTTPS to a non-privileged port. This is very interesting for two reasons: 1. The book never mentions JSVC, which the Tomcat documentation does 2. We believed using JSVC was the only way to run as a non-root user, which doesn't seem to be the case now I would appreciate any feedback about the trade offs and why people choose one over the other. Thanks, Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
