Hi John, I was reading your post and it seems very interesting, I'm a
newbie with these tomcat stuff...
I read a lot of emails in the past about the connectors, but what I don't
understand is what is the function of these connectors... I know that
Apache and Tomcat use these connectors for integrating jsp technology
under apache... that's ok, but what happens internally with Apache and
Tomcat when I use these connectors???...
The webserver that comes with tomcat, what happens with it?????.... is it
still working????...
thanks
Alex
"Turner, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
04/09/2002 11:40 a.m.
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Subject: RE: Apache & Tomcat
Nothing.
Tomcat is great at what it does. Apache is great at what it does. Some
people have situations that require both, for various reasons. Maybe
there
is an existing site, and dynamic content via Tomcat is a retrofit. Maybe
their application has a large amount of static content (an image library
or
other digital asset library, for example). Any number of things.
There are also security concerns, and usability concerns with running
Tomcat
stand-alone. To bind to port 80, Tomcat runs as root. This is unwise in
a
production environment. Apache does not run as root on port 80. Also,
many
people do not like to see "8080" or some other port number on their URL,
and
many corporate firewalls restrict outbound access to ports that are not
email, HTTP, or FTP related (8080 is not one of those).
There are also problems with CGIs, and other extensions. Perhaps you have
a
need for mod_rewrite, or some other Apache module, before the request gets
to Tomcat. Perhaps you have a significant amount of CGIs (perl, whatever)
that need to run, and only one IP address (and hence, only one port 80).
So
you would setup Apache name-based virtual hosts on the single IP address,
and direct Tomcat-related requests to Tomcat and let Apache do it's thing
for the others.
There are all sorts of scenarios where Tomcat in stand-alone mode wouldn't
be the optimal choice.
John Turner
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rui Fernandes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 12:24 PM
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> Subject: Apache & Tomcat
>
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> Why not to use Tomcat alone? What offers the integration of
> Apache with Tomcat for a pure Java/XML/HTML web site?
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