We generally leverage some of the Apache modules, i.e. mod_rewrite, as well
as serve static content.

-Scott

-Scott Battaglia
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Matthew Jones <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks Scott. Do you use any of the extra flexibility for you CAS
> deployment? If so, please can you tell me what in particular? (Without
> giving away any secrets of course).
>
> Is anybody on this list deploying CAS on Tomcat only?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>  We generally run Apache in front as it gives us more flexibility with
>> configuration.  I believe its also faster but we've never really tested
>> Apache+Tomcat vs. Apache.  We're currently running Apache+AJP->Tomcat.
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>> -Scott Battaglia
>> PGP Public Key Id: 0x383733AA
>> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottbattaglia
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Jones <
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>  Is there any compelling reason to (or not to) run Apache in front of
>>> Tomcat5.5 when we are dedicating a (virtual) server to run CAS? The
>>> Tomcat
>>> documentation extols the virtues of Tomcat's raw performance whereas I
>>> have
>>> seen other reports to the contrary. I am using OpenLDAP and the LDAP
>>> authentication configuration in CAS 3.3 and really just want to do as
>>> little
>>> as possible to have CAS up and running.
>>>
>>> CAS is now hosted on Tomcat5.5 running CentOS and the plan was to put
>>> Apache in front of it to handle the SSL connection but is there really
>>> any
>>> advantage to doing this? If there's no compelling reason to do so, I am
>>> inclined to stick with just using Tomcat given that I have (eventually)
>>> managed to get it to work with our certificate infrastructure.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
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