Personally, I've just been running Tomcat standalone on port 80. --- On Tue, 5/19/09, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> From: André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> > Subject: Re: Deploy Tomcat Standalone - good idea or not? > To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 4:37 PM > johnrock wrote: > > I am going to be deploying a webapp on CentOS > (Spring/Hibernate/Tomcat) that > > is JSP based and has hardly any static content..I am > planning to start out > > with 1 tomcat server and 1 db server. > > > > I think that I do not need an apache front end and can > simply run tomcat > > standalone. Is this a bad idea? > > The two options I am considering are: > > 1. Have a firewall redirect traffic directly to my > tomcat server on port > > 8080 > > or > > 2. Have a firewall route traffic to an apache instance > on port 80 running on > > the same machine as tomcat server. Apache would then > function merely to > > redirect requests to tomcat on port 8080. > > > > Which is a better idea? Or are neither preferred? At > this point I do not > > want to run a third machine just for apache, but would > it cause performance > > decrease to run apache on the same machine as my main > tomcat server? Is it > > neccessary ? > > > > > Well, maybe Chris could add one column to his tests, > showing Apache + mod_jk proxying the requests to Tomcat ? > (reference to another thread, "Apache httpd vs Tomcat > static content performance [some results]" > Then we'd see how much overhead Apache + mod_jk add to the > mix. > > In any case, considering the setup you explain above, there > does not seem to be any point to have a front-end Apache, at > the contrary it can only add overhead and complexity. > But make sure to read this other thread if you have static > content, at least to choose the correct Tomcat Connector > configuration. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org