On Sep 17, 2013, at 3:39 PM, Nicholas Violi <nvi...@globalgiving.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Daniel Mikusa <dmik...@gopivotal.com>wrote: > >> What is your purpose with this configuration and with this setup? It's a >> legit setup, but may not be doing what you want. >> >> Typically you would use mod_proxy & mod_proxy_balancer (or mod_jk) to >> front a cluster of Tomcat servers. > > > In production we have a dedicated hardware load balancer in front of > standalone servers that each run one instance of apache connected to one > tomcat, so when I was looking to extend that for local testing, I just > added another VirtualHost. Since apache is not concerned with load > balancing in production, I don't need to complicate my local system with > that detail. I would disagree with this conclusion. In your test setup you absolutely need this. In production, you don't need HTTPD because you have a dedicated hardware load balancer. Unless you have one of those on your desk, you need HTTPD to perform that role. Dan > > Thanks, > Nick --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
