I have a really screwy setup and am looking for some advice.
I have an AOLserver site running a not-very-recent version of OpenACS
with a custom CMS I did not write. It serves up a site written
entirely in Traditional Chinese. I also have a java servlet which
takes a page from that site and translates it into Simplified
Chinese. So URLs are like this:
Traditional - http://big5.mysite.com/public/index
Simplified - http://gb.mysite.com/gate/gb/big5.mysite.com/public/index
The latter goes to a Tomcat site which requests the specified page
from big5.mysite.com, translates it, and returns it.
As you can imagine, this is not fast. I'm working on convincing the
client that what we really need to do is make a static HTML version of
the Simplified site, which gets updated when they update content, and
serve that directly. Ultimately I'm pretty sure that's what we'll end
up doing. But first I have a tech guy on their end who thinks caching
is the way to go, and I need to try that before they'll let me
implement my own solution.
He thought I should just slap Apache in front of all this and use
mod_cache, but that was a dead end. Since Apache doesn't actually
serve any content in this scenario but merely hands off to Tomcat,
there is nothing for it to cache.
I've done some googling on Tomcat and caching but there don't seem to
be any add-ons for it. They say it does some caching by default but
I'm not seeing it, maybe because I'm not using any JSPs. This is my
first foray into Java programming so it's all new to me.
I know that some people use Squid as a caching proxy in front of
AOLserver, but I'm not sure if that would solve my problem or not.
Any suggestions out there?
thanks,
janine
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