I have no idea! It's just one of the things that you see mentioned if you browse throught the tomcat-dev mailing list (which I'm not on, I hasten to add :)
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:14:03AM -0400, Short, Dave wrote: > In which version is this projected to be fixed? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: April 24, 2002 8:11 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Which Apache-To-Tomcat Connector > > > It isn't so. You can still serve static pages, but they'll come > through Tomcat and then apache, rather than being served straight from > apache. End result: you'll see a speed hit. This is what's being > fixed, as I understand it. > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:00:59PM +0000, Lance Smith wrote: > > Using: Apache 2.0.35 and Tomcat 4.0.3 on Red Hat 7.2. > > > > Say it isn't so: There is no way to serve static pages from Apache using > > mod_webapp? Can anyone confirm/deny this? > > > > Lance > > > > >> The major difference between the two modules, other than this, is that > > >> mod_jk allows static content to be served directly from Apache rather > > >> than going through Tomcat, and mod_jk has provision for doing > > >> loadbalancing across multiple servers. Of these, the former is > > >> (apparently) going to be fixed at some point in the near future. Cheers, Simon -- "Jesus ate my mouse" or some similar banality. -- Megahal (trained on asr), 1998-11-06 -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>