Hey, Thanks for ur prompt reply.
Unfortunately, the approach you described wouldn't work in our case because our app needs to do some custom authorization logic before a file can be downloaded (sorry should've mentioned that). I dont think I can get httpd to perform this authorization logic. Can I use the approach of having all the files sitting on a single NFS file server and have the different tomcat instances read/write the files to that server's filesystem? I guess theres gonna be some cost in terms of network latency... Cheers, Imran awarnier wrote: > > Imran Khan wrote: >> Hey, >> >> I am using tomcat 5.5.26 on Ubuntu, currently having a clustered >> configuration, but having the entire cluster on a single box. I have the >> tomcat instances sitting behind apache. >> >> Eventually I'd like to move to cluster on different physical boxes. Part >> of >> our application involves serving files that are saved on the local file >> system. These files are uploaded by users. >> >> My question is, what is the best way to save these files so that they can >> be >> served across the different physical boxes? Should I be mirroring the >> files >> across each physical box or is there a particular distributed file system >> I >> should be using for storing the files? I dont know if there is any other >> technique. >> > Since it seems that you have one single Apache httpd front-ending > multiple Tomcat instances, you could set the system up to have the > static files in one single location, and serve them up directly with > Apache. > This single location could be on some particularly reliable network > fileserver and accessed through NFS or so. > All you need to do at the Apache level, is tuning your proxy rules or > mod_jk configuration, to make Apache "not proxy" to Tomcat the requests > for static pages. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Serving-static-files-in-a-cluster-tp27672008p27674733.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
