It seems that this is what I was looking for:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-3.2-doc/Tomcat-Workers-HowTo.html
I have read the mod_jk document and it does not discuss the details of
load balancing tomcat.
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=tomcat&num=10&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=load+balance&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=jakarta.apache.org&safe=off
--Rick
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, David Cassidy wrote:
> I'm sure a million people are going to say
>
> RTFM
>
> But I'm nice :)
>
> Have a look at mod_jk . It is a very nice module and allows
> apache to send requests through to tomcat.
> You can have more than one apache and more than tomcat - depending
> on how many machines you have :)
>
> Your webapps setup is a tomcat thing. I tend to copy zero length
> files ( ie blank .jsp pages) onto the area that apache serves from
> so that it can do the checks for index.jsp etc and be happy !
>
> Happy reading
>
> David
>
>
> Rick Anderson wrote:
> >
> > We're using tomcat 3.2.3 at the moment and are attempting to configure
> > tomcat so that it can be load balanced behind an apache web server.
> >
> > Where should the webapps directory be located? Does it need to copied
> > onto
> > each machine running tomcat or can it be located on the apache server?
> >
> > I haven't found docs on this yet. If some one could point me in the
> > right
> > direction I'd appreciate it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Rick Anderson
> >
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