You can gain a lot of flexibility when you choose to use Apache in front of your Tomcat backend. For example a very flexible way to perform name-based virtual hosting. Also mod_rewrite is great to perform dynamic redirects using regexes. And the reverse-proxy capabilities by mod_proxy are also very useful - especially when using other application in the same url-space. You can also use it to display a service unavailibilty information when you upgrade/restart you tomcat. If you do not have the need of rewriteing urls, perform virtual-hosting there is IMHO no reason to not choose a standalone tomcat.
Cheers, sigi _______________________ Siegfried Puchbauer http://siegfried.puchbauer.com/ On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:55, Stéphane Gully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > This is a generic question, not directly related to CAS. I'm sorry for > that. > Google didn't helped me so I try here. > > When I installed CAS, I had the choice to deploy it directly in Tomcat > or in Apache/mod_jk+Tomcat. I chosed to deploy it directly in Tomcat > because I needed X509 authentication handler and it just looked more > easy to configure directly in Tomcat. > > I often read that mod_jk should be used but I never know why ? could > someone tell me the reason(s) ? > > regards, > -- > Stéphane GULLY > _______________________________________________ > Yale CAS mailing list > [email protected] > http://tp.its.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/cas >
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