Using ajp13 with Apache and Tomcat holds open a socket for requests between
the two as opposed to opening a socket for every request (ajp12). Shutting
down Tomcat apparently does not gracefully allow Apache to deal with the
socket suddenly closing, so Apache dies as well.
Regards,
Joel Parramore
----- Original Message -----
From: "Milt Epstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 5:37 PM
Subject: RE: Tomcat & SSL
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, GOMEZ Henri wrote:
>
> > >> -- SSL is only supported for Apache, and you need Apache-SSL or
> > >> apache-mod_ssl, running with mod_jk
> > >>
> > >> -- mod_jserv won't work if you want to use SSL
> > >>
> > >> Is the above true? And also, if my web server is IPlanet/Netscape or
> > >> IIS, do those redirectors provide SSL support?
> > >>
> > >> Any help would be greatly appreciated! Please cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >Well, I can't answer all your questions, but I am using Apache,
> > >mod_ssl, tomcat, and mod_jserv, so the answer to your last one would
> > >seem to be "no, it's false" :-).
> >
> > Make me a favour, switch to mod_jk and ajp13 which is faster and
> > support much more servers (Apache, IIS, IPlanet/NES, jni).
> >
> > And that the part of the connector area which is the more activelly
> > maintained.
>
> Wasn't there something about tomcat being more difficult to restart
> when using ajp13? Like apache had to be restarted as well? If true,
> I think that's too big an inconvenience to warrant switching.
>
> Milt Epstein
> Research Programmer
> Software/Systems Development Group
> Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
