Thanks Filip Andy
-----Original Message----- From: Filip Hanik - Dev Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 8:29 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: how can I run normal web sites using Tomcat? 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
