I believe what you are referring to is the ProxyPass Directive http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass
I have used this before, but haven't played with it as a way to reference the app server. If it were that simple, I imagine it would have already been done. I am just getting going with the connectors, but things like parameters, servlets, and the like have their own needs which may require a closer integration with the webserver than can be provided by a simple reverse proxy setup. If all you need is the reverse proxy setup, then perhaps you don't even need the webserver. Just let tomcat serve it all, then all your connector worries are moot. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Wesley Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Apache-Tomcat connectors... why?? Hello all, Hopefully I picked a good list to bring this topic up on. There were several candidates. I have spent some time today attempting to perform the non-trival task of configuring communication between the apache web server and the tomcat servlet engine. This seems to be a fairly complicated process involving quite a lot of configuration and some degree of black magic. It occured to me that a simpler approch would be to simply have apache forward requests at HTTP level to a list of slave servers in the form of "Cant find this resource!! Can you??". Before apache returns a 404 error it could consult some form of list and ask other servers on the network (tomcat for instance ;o)) to attempt to find the resource via HTTP. I dont see a reason why this would perform particually badly in the most common set up of apache + tomcat. Presumably there is a way to configure apache to do this already (if anyone could point me to the write manaual page I would be grateful), but it doesnt seem to be offered up a simple solution to a complex problem on the tomcat integration pages. My question... why is this solution not mentioned more often given the number of "how do i configure mod_jk2??" results on google and would their be any serious disadvantages with such an approch? Thanks Wesley Hall --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
