On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:10:39PM -0700, Phillip Pi wrote: > > >>>I was asked to set up a Tomcat's proxy server in Windows (using XP SP2). > > >>Question 1: What is "Tomcat's proxy server"? > > > > > >Apache Tomcat to act like a proxy server so other PCs, on the LAN, can > > >go through it to access the Internet. Is this not a correct way to set > > >up? > > > > What you want is probably Apache httpd, not Apache Tomcat. > > And in httpd, look up "forward proxy" in > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html > > > > > > >I thought Apache Tomcat already includes Apache. > > > > That is probably what got you confused. > > "Apache" is a generic name for many different software projects. > > (check http://www.apache.org/, the list below "Projects"). > > One of them is "Apache HTTP Server" (which is generally what people mean > > by "Apache" or "Apache webserver"). Another one is "Apache Tomcat" (or > > "Tomcat" for short), which is a java servlet engine (container?). > > They are two different things, which /can/ work together, but also > > separately. > > Thanks. Let me share this with my boss to see what she says. Maybe she > did get confused.
OK, she said we need Tomcat because of PAC scripts to do the proxy auto configurations. So, do I still need to do the Apache server? If so, then can I put both Tomcat and Apache on one machine to act a server and another computer? The reason for this that I need to test Internet (not Intranet) Web pages through proxies. -- "Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of men." --Mortimer J. Adler /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / E-mail: phi...@earthlink.net or a...@zimage.com ( ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
