Unfortunately, I have no experience with that.
On 7/24/08 8:09 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for you answers. > > As you are speaking about SSL, do you know if client certificats are > forwarded to CAS X509 handler when Tomecat is behind the Apache/mod_jk > or Apache/mod_proxy_ajp ? > > Stéphane > > On 7/24/08, Andrew Ralph Feller, afelle1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For those who need to support Java applications along with PHP / Perl >> applications, they could host both from the same machine by having Apache >> httpd front-end Apache Tomcat. There is a another reason why some people >> use mod_jk + Tomcat: inexperience in managing Tomcat. When I was starting >> out, I hated working with keystores as it wasn¹t nearly as straight forward >> as Apache httpd¹s mod_ssl configuration. Once I found how to setup the >> Apache Portable Runtime in Tomcat, then I felt comfortable not having Tomcat >> front-ended as the APR configuration is extremely similar to mod_ssl. >> >> On a tangential note, there is an alternative to mod_jk called >> mod_proxy_ajp, which comes with Apache httpd 2.2 and works in a similar >> manner. >> >> >> On 7/24/08 6:12 AM, "Siegfried Puchbauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Yale CAS mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://tp.its.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/cas >> >> -- >> Andrew R. Feller, Analyst >> Information Technology Services >> 200 Fred Frey Building >> Louisiana State University >> Baton Rouge, LA 70803 >> (225) 578-3737 (Office) >> (225) 578-6400 (Fax) >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Yale CAS mailing list > [email protected] > http://tp.its.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/cas -- Andrew R. Feller, Analyst Information Technology Services 200 Fred Frey Building Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (225) 578-3737 (Office) (225) 578-6400 (Fax) _______________________________________________ Yale CAS mailing list [email protected] http://tp.its.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/cas
