What is the need to run Apache and Tomcat together?

[Carl Boudreau <ca...@notiva.com>]

I have noticed there are a few questions about running these to app
together.  Doesn't Tomcat 4.0 run well on it's own?

Carl


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Re: What is the need to run Apache and Tomcat together?

[Graham Leggett <mi...@sharp.fm>]

Carl Boudreau wrote:

> I have noticed there are a few questions about running these to app
> together.  Doesn't Tomcat 4.0 run well on it's own?

Apache serves static files a lot faster than Tomcat does. As a result,
using Apache+Tomcat can improve performance - static files will be
served by Apache, dynamic ones will be generated by Tomcat, all within
the same web tree.

You might choose to run Tomcat on it's own if the performance penalty
can be lived with, and you're interested in simple installation instead.

Regards,
Graham
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