Multiple Tomcat instances for virtual hosts

2003-09-06 Thread Thomas Eichberger
Hi, I have Apache 1.3 and Tomcat 4.1.8 on a Red Hat 9 machine. Apache serves several virutal hosts. We have one Tomcat instance running with several web contexts, one context for each virtual host. Now I would like to change this to have one Tomcat instance for each virtual host (this is

Re: Multiple Tomcat instances for virtual hosts

2003-09-06 Thread Dhruva B. Reddy
This doesn't really answer your question, but we've found Tomcat to be quite robust. You may also want to find out (if you don't already know) what's bringing the server down. -d --- Thomas Eichberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have Apache 1.3 and Tomcat 4.1.8 on a Red Hat 9 machine.

Re: Multiple Tomcat instances for virtual hosts

2003-09-06 Thread Bob Langford
Your plan should work pretty well. I do something similar myself. The major difference is that I use one installation of Tomcat for all the sites. I have a script to start tomcat for each site, that points CATALINA_HOME to the shared Tomcat binaries, and CATALINA_BASE to the conf/, logs/,

Re: Multiple Tomcat instances for virtual hosts

2003-09-06 Thread Sai Sivanesan
I really like the idea of setting up multiple instances of Tomcat per virtual site - i have 2 questions: 1) How does it affect memory usage, i.e. if we are on a server with X ammount of ram and there are 20 sites, does each site end up needing a minimum of ~21 MB RAM for tomcat so we have a