Hi All, I have the following configuration.
Standalone Apache web server is talking to Tomcat AS using AJP connector. Both Apache and Tomcat are running on seperate server machines. All my application components are deployed on the Tomcat AS and Apache is just used to redirect the user requests to Tomcat. Now I have the following requirement, I have been asked by my operation team member that he needs to " replace Battery and install McAfee" on the Apache web server and the activity would require approx. 1 hour. He also told me that during this period of time, the entire application would not be accessible! My question to him was that why can't users access the application by directly putting the IP of the Tomcat server in the browser during the time Apache web server is under maintenance? Why can't we access the Tomcat AS directly? Once the Apache is up, users can then use the actual URL and access the application again via Apache web server. But the short answer I got from the team member was that *there is no alternate URL as Tomcat is using AJP connector which cannot be accessed via browser. * So my question is if it really true and there is no alternate way (quick solution/workaround) we can avoid the complete outage of the application? I am not technically aware of this AJP configuration and constraint, so that's why I want to make sure if the above condition stated by the team member is indeed correct. May be he lacks or unaware of any other alternate. So any help/clarification would be really appreciated. Many thanks. -- Regards Suleman
