CAS 3.3 on Tomcat 5.5

[Scott Battaglia]

We generally run Apache in front as it gives us more flexibility with
configuration.  I believe its also faster but we've never really tested
Apache+Tomcat vs. Apache.  We're currently running Apache+AJP->Tomcat.

-Scott

-Scott Battaglia
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Jones <
matthew.jones at interactivedata.com> wrote:

> Is there any compelling reason to (or not to) run Apache in front of
> Tomcat5.5 when we are dedicating a (virtual) server to run CAS? The Tomcat
> documentation extols the virtues of Tomcat's raw performance whereas I have
> seen other reports to the contrary. I am using OpenLDAP and the LDAP
> authentication configuration in CAS 3.3 and really just want to do as little
> as possible to have CAS up and running.
>
> CAS is now hosted on Tomcat5.5 running CentOS and the plan was to put
> Apache in front of it to handle the SSL connection but is there really any
> advantage to doing this? If there's no compelling reason to do so, I am
> inclined to stick with just using Tomcat given that I have (eventually)
> managed to get it to work with our certificate infrastructure.
>
> Thanks
>
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