Web Application Deployment - Using Tomcat and Apache httpd Together

Using Tomcat and Apache httpd Together - Web Application Deployment module A655

Tomcat's an excellent server, but it doesn't have quite the facilities and acceptance that Apache httpd and Microsoft's IIS have. Fortunately, you can get the best of both Tomcat and another server by running them in careful co-operative co-existence on the same host computer.

This topic is presented on public courses Deploying Apache and Tomcat, Deploying Java Applications on Linux / Unix

Examples from our training material

httpd.forward	Forwarding from http to Tomcat
jkworkers.properties	Configuration file for mod_jk with load balancing
snowdrop.httpd.jk.conf	mod_jk configuration example - balancing and status

Opentalk forum discussions related to this topic

connecting Tomcat and Apache using jk2
Httpd to Tomcat Proxy code 302 problems

Background information

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Topics covered in this module

Do I run both Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat?.
Connection options.
Using two separate server daemons on a single host.
Connecting via a proxy from Apache to Tomcat.
Setting up httpd to act as a proxy.
Setting up Tomcat to handle proxied requests from httpd.
Beware of double URL rewriting.
Running Tomcat from httpd with jk2 with AJP.
Installing and configuring mod_jk2 in httpd.
Other deprecated connectors.

Course links

The following web pages are used as references / examples in this module

[Link] The Jakarta Site - Binary Downloads
(at http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-connectors/jk2/release/v2.0.2/bin/linux/i386/)

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