Hi There, What is everyone's opinion on whether or not you should an apache web server sitting in front of tomcat magnolia in a production environment? Are there any performance benefits?
I'm just curious. A large proportion of my IT experience has been in developing custom java web applications. As a default architecture, we pretty much always went with an apache web server, tomcat app server approach so that apache web server could effectively serve up all static content while leaving the dynamic stuff to tomcat. This is also good from a scalability perspective. But with Magnolia, a large proportion of what I would normally consider "static" is managed by the CMS through the DMS (images, style sheets, etc.). This means, Apache will really be doing nothing but passing all requests through to Tomcat (mod_jk). So I put the question out there, what benefits does one get by using an apache web server if magnolia is only hosting a single magnolia site? I did a search on the wiki http://wiki.magnolia-cms.com/dosearchsite.action?queryString=apache which tells you how to configure apache but doesn't necessarily explain the benefits unless you're hosting multiple sites with the one magnolia instance. Cheers, Brent ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/community/mailing-lists.html To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
