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From: "Hari Om" <hari_om@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Port 80, 8009 and 8080
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:40:37 +0000
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Thank You John - Hats Off to you..... that was a very good 
explaination........Million Thanks


>From: John Turner <tomcat-user@johnturner.com>
>Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
>To: Tomcat Users List <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
>Subject: Re: Port 80, 8009 and 8080
>Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:51:58 -0400
>
>
>We talked about this yesterday.
>
>First, understand that port 8080 is OPTIONAL.  It is not required.
>
>If you integrate Tomcat with Apache, all that is required is a single 
>connection on a single port.
>
>That port can be ANY port you wish, it is up to you.  By convention, the 
>default for Apache connectors is 8009.
>
>Tomcat has the ability to act as a web server WITHOUT Apache.  A default 
>installation is configured to do two things: be a webserver WITHOUT Apache, 
>and integrate with Apache.  Tomcat can do both at the same time.
>
>By convention, web servers take requests on port 80.  However, many people 
>already have web servers running on machines where they install Tomcat.  
>Thus, to avoid conflicts and make it easier to get started with Tomcat, the 
>default HTTP port in a Tomcat installation is 8080, to avoid conflict with 
>any existing web servers on port 80.
>
>In production, if you run Apache + Tomcat, you DISABLE the HTTP connector 
>on port 8080.
>
>In production, if you do not run Apache and run Tomcat alone as your only 
>webserver, you DISABLE the AJP connector on port 8009 and change the HTTP 
>connector on port 8080 to port 80, so that web users do not have to type a 
>port number on the URL.
>
>In an Apache + Tomcat environment, the request comes in on port 80, Apache 
>determines whether the request should be sent to Tomcat.  If so, then the 
>Apache connector module determines which port it can use to contact Tomcat 
>(by default this is 8009).  Tomcat is contacted on that port (Tomcat is 
>already listening and waiting for connections on that port).  Tomcat 
>handles the request, and sends the result back to the Apache connector on 
>the same port.  Port 8080 is not involved in any way, shape or form.
>
>This is why you can use two different URLs to diagnose problems:
>
>Problem with http://localhost/examples = problem with connector
>Problem with http://localhost:8080/examples = problem with Tomcat
>
>Both URLs can work, they are not mutually exclusive.
>
>John
>
>
>Hari Om wrote:
>
>>can any GURU's here give me a good step-by-step understanding as to how 
>>the request flows from Apache (port 80)  to MOD_JK and AJP (Port 8009) and 
>>then to Tomcat (Port 8080). I am confused lately ....

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