Am Dienstag, 5. April 2011, 18:13:57 schrieb Michael Jerger: > Andre wrote: > > That is one of those areas where giving a precise answer is not easy, > > because it depends on so many things.. > > > > You can run two separate Apache httpd instances of course, each with its > > individual MaxClients setting. But then you will have to give them > > separate listening ports, which may or may not make other things more > > complicated in your case. > > I'm not shure about this - let me figure this out the next days. Are you > interested in a way to run two instances on the same port? > I think I've seen such a configuration allready ...
Found out how it works ... but I think, this solution is new only to me - but anyhow :-) Many apache instances on one machine can run * either on 1IP & different ports * or on different IPs & same port > thank you very much for the elaborated answer - there are some good points > to think about. > > On question left for me (I think, you asked it allready) - why using apache > in front of tomcat at all - if its so complicated to configure? > > Do you have an answer to that question? > > For me the answer is - security, loadbalancing and client certificate > handling - at least in general and for larger applications. > > In my scenario described the only good argument would be security - have > you ever done/seen an pentest to tomcat without fronting apache? > Do you have a good starting point to read about this topic? Kind regadrs, Michaeal
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