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Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:43:40 +0000
From: Daniel M Garland <daniel.garland@titanemail.com>
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You use this connector to relay requests to a certain URL pattern to 
Tomcat, so you can have part of your website as static HTML served by 
apache and part of it hosted by Tomcat, which could be running your 
server-side Java.

Perhaps you have a jsp contact form on your static site that needs to 
capture user signups; well you'd have /signups to be your contact form 
and the Tomcat server would be hosting that page.

Other advantages are related to functionality in apache but not in 
Tomcat, so you often see people asking about mod_rewrite in Tomcat, and 
the textbook response is to have apache sitting in front of Tomcat to 
use mod_rewrite, seems overkill for me but there are other reasons too.

As for the last point, everything goes through apache and only content 
that matches a URL is forwarded to Tomcat. You'll have a log file 
configured mod_jk.log.

HTH
Dan Garland


loredana loredana wrote:
> Ok, my project manager asked me to set up a server with tomcat, apache and ajp connector. This is the first time I do it and after reading some of the documentation on the ajp connector I still can't figure out it's purpose. Can anybody tell me what is it's use? I read 
> 
> "This is used for cases
>   where you wish to invisibly integrate Tomcat 4 into an existing (or new)
>   Apache installation, and you want Apache to handle the static content
>   contained in the web application" 
> 
> I don't know if I understand that right. Can anybody give me a simple example?
> 
> And one more question. After reading the documentation and making the changes to the configuration and everything, when I run my application how can I test/verify that the connector is working? how can I determine if apache is handling the static content and not tomcat?
> 
> 10x in advance and sorry for if the question sounds too "newby"
> 
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