Anthony:
> I am researching porting my site to Apache 2.2 and Tomcat, and hope to
> gain the following.
> 1. Serve the static content from apache e.g. images, clips sound, text
> files etc.
I do that will all of my JSP apps. I set up Apache on the
front end and use mod_jk to push JSP/servlet stuff into Tomcat.
It works very well and scales nicely.
> 2. Install a CMS to offload content managment to others and also blog
> functionality, Wordpress seems to be the tool of choice for ease of
> usage and widespread usage, this seems to work fine in my test
> environment.
That should be no problem. Wordpress is just a php app in front
of MySQL.
> 3. Maintain current servlet and jsp (including xml) functionality on
> tomcat. Instead of one super application I can deploy servlets as
> seperate applications and update them seperately.
Are you talking about having multiple service in one webapp or
servlets in different webapps?
> 4. Use connectors such as mod_jk to load balance and provide
> failover.
Like you said, this works very well.
> My main issue now is about how the authentication works between Tomcat
> and Apache.
> I would like to use both Form based and http basic authentication on
> protected resources running on both apache and tomcat.
> i.e. Form based for humans and httpbasic for XML requests over ssl.
> I have a user database in mysql containing username and
> password, roles
> are in another table but these could be merged if required.
I put all protected info in Tomcat and only use Apache for
sending public content. If there is a static file that
needs protecting, I use a servlet that checks if they are
logged in and then opens and streams the file back to the
user. It works well.
> In terms of single sign on how can I make the user experience seamless
> between static content-managed pages and jsp/servlets?
If you use one webapp with multiple servlets and serve
your protected static content from Tomcat, SSO is very
easy.
I hope this helps,
Neil
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