On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Turner, John wrote: > The connectors serve as a pipeline from Apache to Tomcat and back > again for certain requests. A JSP or Servlet request received by > Apache would be sent to Tomcat, Tomcat would do the processing, and > the resulting HTML would be sent back to Apache (and then to the > client), all via the connector. > > Apache is not required to use Tomcat. Tomcat works perfectly well > as a HTTP/1.1 compliant web server, all on its own. However, due to > various reasons, some people have a need to use Apache in addition > to Tomcat. If this is the case, you use a connector.
Well, technically, connectors are used if you run Tomcat standalone as well (and this may be something that adds confusion to all this, but that is the way the developers have defined things). To wit, notice that in the next paragraph you mention deleting the "HTTP Connector" if you're not running Tomcat standalone. In such a case, they "connect" directly to the web browser, not Apache. > If you are using Apache, the wisest move from a production > standpoint is to delete the HTTP Connector element (or comment it > out) from Tomcat's server.xml and leave only the Apache connector > Connector element enabled. > > John Turner > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 5:00 PM > > To: Tomcat Users List > > Subject: RE: Apache & Tomcat > > > > > > 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 [ ... ] Milt Epstein Research Programmer Systems and Technology Services (STS) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
