[users@httpd] LongPolling/WebSockets connection handling & max. connections

Hello everybody, currently I'm having an open question/topic about web sockets and long polling, which I'm not completely sure about the current handling within the Apache web server. The main question is about the mechanism "how websockets connections will be handled from the Apache?". Curre

AW: [users@httpd] Compile apache2.4 with mod_proxy_html/libxml2

Hello, today, I found some time to check your comments and they worked very well! I also needed to set the envvars, without them Apache was not able to find the libs during make, configure worked without setting the envvars. Thanks & Cheers, André -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Rainer

[users@httpd] Compile apache2.4 with mod_proxy_html/libxml2

Hello, today I tried to compile the current apache 2.4.12 together with mod_proxy_html and xml2enc, but I ran into some problem with libxml2, which is currently not installed on the system and I'm not able to install the library in the system. So what I did was to compile libxml2 as shared libr

AW: [users@httpd] Execution order of directives within Apache 2.4

Yes, you are completely right and all configurations, which are based on executions orders are hackish and I don't try to implement such configurations. There just have been some internal questions about the execution order of configurations inside apache and I was not fully aware of and so I as

[users@httpd] Execution order of directives within Apache 2.4

Hello everybody, I was searching for a description of the exection order of directives and configurations within the apache and I wasn't able to find the documentation about that? E.g. I know that ReverseProxy rules will be executed in the order from top down, also virtual hosts and filters, b

AW: [users@httpd] Any Comparisons? -- mod_wl vs mod_proxy vs mod_jk

Hello, mod_wl has some advantages, mod_proxy does not support i.e. mod_proxy does normally only a ping to check if a backend server is available, which normally works in 99% even if the web-application behind is not available, so it is possible that mod_proxy routes the request to /backend even

[users@httpd] After 414 error page will not be delievered, because of long referer?

Hello, i have a problem with customized ErrorDocuments within the Apache, because if I send an GET request to the webserver which provokes an 414 (i.e. an URL which is to long), the apache is not able to deliver the error page, only the standard page within the related browser will be displayed

AW: [users@httpd] Client certificate auth behind f5 loadbalancer

Why do you terminate the ssl on the F5 and not on the Apache-backend? We load balance IP/Port-based on the F5 and terminate the SSL on the Apache backend, so you would be able to turn on your SSLEngine and Proxy the SSL from the F5 on the SSL Standard SSL Port 443 of the Apache and you can do ev

AW: [users@httpd] Problems with mod_proxy_balancer / slotmem_create @ apache 2.4.4

Hello Rainer, all instances have different DefaultRuntimeDirs, I have also checked problems regarding the generated *.shm and *.uid-files, but these files are definitely not the problem. The problem here is definitely inside the shared memory of the os (command: ipcs), only if there is shared

[users@httpd] Problems with mod_proxy_balancer / slotmem_create @ apache 2.4.4

Hello eveybody, since apache version 2.4.4 I have a problem by running multiple apache instances on my server. Normally we run multiple apaches, under different users, on one machine, but since 2.4.4 we have often the problem that apache is not able to reserve shared memory, because some other