[thelist] Moving to JSP from ASP

Hassan Schroeder hassan at webtuitive.com
Tue Oct 5 11:49:42 CDT 2004


Chris Johnston wrote:

> Really. I was always under the impression that the web server in
> Tomcat was more for development and not for production. Lean something
> every day. So is there ever an advantage in placing Apache in front of
> Tomcat?

Depends on who you talk to :-) as well as the specifics of the site.
I can imagine a shared hosting or mixed development environment where
servlets/JSP provided only a small amount of the served content using
Tomcat as a back end via jk/jk2/mod_proxy. But I have multiple sites
hosted on my own server, and they all share a single Tomcat image...

If for some reason I really needed Apache to support some non-servlet
environment, I'd just get another IP address and run Apache alongside
Tomcat, rather than in front of it.

But hopefully that'll not ever be necessary. :-)

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