Re: [Dhis2-users] Help Required

2011-10-28 Thread Orvalho Augusto
Good! Thanks Caveman On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Knut Staring wrote: > Caveman, we don't recommend windows for servers. > > Regards, Knut (via mobile phone) > On Oct 28, 2011 7:35 PM, "Orvalho Augusto" wrote: > >> Indeed is ngix is better for reverse proxy and a lot of more people start >

Re: [Dhis2-users] Help Required

2011-10-28 Thread Knut Staring
Caveman, we don't recommend windows for servers. Regards, Knut (via mobile phone) On Oct 28, 2011 7:35 PM, "Orvalho Augusto" wrote: > Indeed is ngix is better for reverse proxy and a lot of more people start > to use it. But I think there is not native ngix for windows so apache would > fit for

Re: [Dhis2-users] Help Required

2011-10-28 Thread Orvalho Augusto
Indeed is ngix is better for reverse proxy and a lot of more people start to use it. But I think there is not native ngix for windows so apache would fit for this. And I think is not good to edit files (on debian way) /etc/apache/mods-enabled. So on Docs we must change those reverse proxy settings

Re: [Dhis2-users] Help Required

2011-10-28 Thread Lars Helge Ă˜verland
Not trying to confuse people here. But if a reverse proxy is only what's needed i can recommend using nginx over apache - its specifically designed to act as one and a lot more light-weight / less resource intensive than apache. On debian / ubuntu Install with sudo apt-get install nginx and then

Re: [Dhis2-users] Help Required

2011-10-28 Thread Knut Staring
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Orvalho Augusto wrote: > And another recommendation is protect tomcat with Apache (configure it to > work like reverse proxy). Somewhere on the tomcat docs they do recommend > that too. Indeed - this is also in the DHIS2 implementation guide: http://dhis2.org/doc

Re: [Dhis2-users] Help Required

2011-10-28 Thread Orvalho Augusto
And another recommendation is protect tomcat with Apache (configure it to work like reverse proxy). Somewhere on the tomcat docs they do recommend that too. Caveman On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Jason Pickering < jason.p.picker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Stephen, > Just one more important p

Re: [Dhis2-users] Help Required

2011-10-28 Thread Knut Staring
Jason is talking about Linux users, not database user's Regards, Knut (via mobile phone) On Oct 28, 2011 9:49 AM, "Jason Pickering" wrote: > Hi Stephen, > Just one more important point, and that is to be sure NOT to run Tomcat as > "root'. If you are using a manual install of Tomcat, as opposed

Re: [Dhis2-users] Help Required

2011-10-28 Thread Jason Pickering
Hi Stephen, Just one more important point, and that is to be sure NOT to run Tomcat as "root'. If you are using a manual install of Tomcat, as opposed to installing it through the package manager of Linux, it is best practice to create a seperate user for tomcat, and run the process as a non-privi