This module covers topics raised during Tomcat deployment courses, or which we will be covering on future private courses. Most of the subjects covered here will be of interest to a minority of trainees, so we won't be studying them in detail on every public course.
This topic is presented on public courses
Deploying Apache and Tomcat,
Deploying Java Applications on Linux / Unix
Examples from our training material
| bal.httpd.conf | Load balancing a number of Tomcat instances via httpd |
| balance.conf | httpd mod_rewrite map for load balancing Apache Tomcat |
| cluck.pl | "heartbeat" script to switch servers |
| clust | Clustering - basic setup for server.xml |
| mod_rewrite-load_balance | Configuration file mod_rewrite load balancing |
| sslc | server.xml setup example - SSL connector |
Opentalk forum discussions related to this topic
Tomcat Load Balancing v Clusteringwget grabbing web pages from command line
Background information
Some modules are
available for download as a sample of our material or under an
Open Training Notes License for free download from
http://www.training-notes.co.uk.
Topics covered in this module
Running a secure service through https.
Certificate provision.
Changes to server.xml.
A note on https.
Server testing through wget.
Clustering and load balancing.
Setting up a cluster.
The current state of clustering.
Load Balancing.
Load balancing - an alternative.
Course links
The following web pages are used as references / examples in this module
[
Link] OpenSSL: The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS
(at http://www.openssl.org)
[
Link] GNU wget - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
(at http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html)
We check these links from time to time with a spider written in PHP. Latest full check was on Saturday, 12th June 2004. Titles are extracted from the web pages listed.
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