the setup can be trivial, if you pair one apache to one tomcat, and use
mod_proxy.
you should be up and running fairly quickly.
Filip
Alan Chaney wrote:
Hi Andrew
Tomcat is not a 'general purpose' web server - rather, it is a 'Java
web application' server and is specifically designed to support a
number of
standards for serving Java web-based applications (eg, the 'servlet
spec'). If you need to run a 'mixed' set of web applications,
including static (.htm or .html) pages and PHP and CGI scripts you
should probably consider running both the Apache HTTP server and
Tomcat together. I've had quite a lot of success with this, but its
not exactly trivial to setup.
See http://httpd.apache.org/ for more details on the Apache server.
See the http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/ page for more
information on linking Tomcat to Apache.
You can combine Apache and Tomcat with the mod_jk connector, which
means that when you can configure the system to pass Java specific
requests to Tomcat and serve PHP and CGI with Apache.
Although it is possible to serve static HTML pages with Tomcat such as
you can create with Dreamweaver etc, it certainly doesn't offer the
ability to serve PHP content except as CGI. You can see
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/cgi-howto.html for how to
serve CGI with Tomcat. You *could* use a command line PHP script as a
CGI program but frankly it's not a very good way to do it.
To recap - if you want to serve Java, PHP and other CGI (say PERL)
then use Apache as the front end and Tomcat for the Java side of
things. If you don't need to serve Java applications at all, then you
probably don't need Tomcat!
Regards
Alan Chaney
Andrew E. Davidson wrote:
Hello
Does anyone one know how I can run normal web sites on Tomcat? By
normal I
mean sites that are produced using a tool like Microsoft's front
page, or
Dream weaver. The web masters of these sites want to publish their site
changes using FTP. They do not have the ability to create WAR files.
Does anyone know what I would have to do to run a web site that was
implemented using PHP or CGI scripts?
Thanks
Andy
p.s. I did not find anything about this topic on the documentation,
FAQ's,
or Tomcat reference books I have purchased
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