Few public ports w/many Tomcat instances
I'm a Java developer and reluctant/under-qualified server administrator formulating a strategy for transitioning two production web apps from Resin to Tomcat. I'm familiar with connecting multiple Resin instances to a single Apache instance, such that all of the Resin instances (on ports in the 808X range) are accessible via Apache on ports 80 and 443. I get the gist of how to do this using Tomcat behind Apache, and how to provide direct access to multiple instances of Tomcat standalone (without Apache) using the hostname in combination with the corresponding Tomcat instance's unique port number. Unfortunately, I must run multiple instances of Tomcat, I must run those instances on the same machine, and I cannot provide public access to that (production) machine on any ports other than 80 (http) and 443 (https). Yes, both web apps use both http and https. Is there a better/faster/easier alternative to using Apache as a front-end port proxy server (via vhosts) for my multiple Tomcat instances? Tomcat alone appears to provide all the web server features I need, except for the aforementioned port proxy functionality. Perhaps a third instance of Tomcat could do that? Perhaps there is an even more elegant solution?? Mike Volk Lead Programmer Northwest Media, Inc.
RE: Few public ports w/many Tomcat instances
From: Mike Volk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a better/faster/easier alternative to using Apache as a front-end port proxy server (via vhosts) for my multiple Tomcat instances? Can you get a second IP address assigned to the machine? If so, bind one Tomcat instance to each IP and you're done. - Peter - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Few public ports w/many Tomcat instances
Mike Volk wrote: I'm a Java developer and reluctant/under-qualified server administrator formulating a strategy for transitioning two production web apps from Resin to Tomcat. I'm familiar with connecting multiple Resin instances to a single Apache instance, such that all of the Resin instances (on ports in the 808X range) are accessible via Apache on ports 80 and 443. I get the gist of how to do this using Tomcat behind Apache, and how to provide direct access to multiple instances of Tomcat standalone (without Apache) using the hostname in combination with the corresponding Tomcat instance's unique port number. Unfortunately, I must run multiple instances of Tomcat, I must run those instances on the same machine, and I cannot provide public access to that (production) machine on any ports other than 80 (http) and 443 (https). Yes, both web apps use both http and https. Is there a better/faster/easier alternative to using Apache as a front-end port proxy server (via vhosts) for my multiple Tomcat instances? Tomcat alone appears to provide all the web server features I need, except for the aforementioned port proxy functionality. Perhaps a third instance of Tomcat could do that? Perhaps there is an even more elegant solution?? I'm not aware of any better solutions. Apache does work quite well in this role. That said, it would be nice if there was a Java replacement for Apache in this infrastructure. It could still use AJP as the communication protocol and could be an instance of Tomcat or Glassfish or a special web app as far as I'm concerned -- though ideally it would use NIO rather than APR as having to build/maintain/distribute native code for various platforms is the main issue with Apache as I see it. -- Jess Holle - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Few public ports w/many Tomcat instances
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Mike Volk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a better/faster/easier alternative to using Apache as a front-end port proxy server I haven't used Pound myself but it was strongly recommended by someone who /is/ using it in production: http://www.apsis.ch/pound/ HTH! -- Hassan Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
