Thanks All. I'm quite happy with mod_proxy, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing the boat on mod_wl.
It seems as if mod_wl has some advanced features if you were using clustering, etc on the back end. ~Todd On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > You could always try mod_proxy_ajp, which uses the mod_proxy framework, > but communicates via AJP. It's better at detection of silently > dropped AJP connections. > > > On Feb 9, 2015, at 3:18 AM, Dr James Smith <j...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > > > We used mod_jk for ages and have recently flipped back to mod_proxy for > our java/tomcat apps, we found that we had connectivity issues with mod_jk > - if the connection between apache/tomcat is severed then mod_jk did not > always work cleanly - and subsequent requests would just hang. mod_proxy > didn't have the problem. > > > > The problem showed it self when we started segregating machines into > virtual firewall zones - so traffic between machines was controlled. > > > > It does mean that we don't have as easy a load-balanced setup - > although we do send the requests back through our front-end load balancers > and this seems effective. > > > > James > > > > --- > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > > http://www.avast.com > > > > > > > > -- > > The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research > Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company > registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 > Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
