Thanks for the tip, we will look at it. -Mark
-----Original Message----- From: Wade Chandler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 1:40 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Basic load balancing Joe Plautz wrote: > From what I understand load balancing is done at the router, where > clustering is a tomcat setup issue. > > Joe > > Faine, Mark wrote: > >> Tomcat 5.0.28 >> >> We seem to often have to make minor changes that cause us to have to >> restart our tomcat server (the whole server, not just a web >> application) and this has lead me to decide to research load >> balancing. The idea would be to have two servers that would be exact >> duplicates. One of the servers would only become available when the >> other was not running. This way we could make the change on server2 >> (and restart it) and then bring server1 down and make the change to >> it as well. This would prevent any real downtime for our users. >> Where should I look for info on how to implement this type of failover? >> Thanks for your help >> >> -Mark >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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] > > You can also use an Apache server as a front end to multiple servers/tomcats. I'm not talking about using mod_jk either, but using Apache as a traffic router. It works well, and you will be using mod_rewrite and/or mod_proxy. Check them out. Wade --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
