Markus Schönhaber-10 wrote:
>
> TheGrailer:
>
>> So what do you all think? Is the Apache2 infront of the Tomcat 6 a waste
>> of
>> time or worth while?
>
> I agree with what Pid and Peter already said. Just to phrase it with my
> own words: I see two major reasons why you'd want to put httpd in front
> of Tomcat
> 1. To act as a load balancer for multiple Tomcats.
> 2. To serve dynamic content written in something that Tomcat isn't able
> to process as good as httpd (if at all), for example PHP.
>
> Judging from what you wrote, neither seems to apply to your case.
> Nevertheless it would be interesting to hear why your friend, who
> advocates the use of httpd, thinks this additional complexity is
> justified.
> In my experience, simply having some static content to serve, isn't a
> justification.
>
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> Regards
> mks
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To start with, thanks for your input!
I can almost certainately say I won't go other than Java/Groovy so PHP and
all that won't be needed.
And my "Tomcat alone"-friend thought I should go Varnish if I was to load
balance with 2 Tomcats or something like that, but that's a different story.
Not Apache2 anyway.
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