CAS 3.3 on Tomcat 5.5

[Matthew Jones]

Thanks Scott. Do you use any of the extra flexibility for you CAS 
deployment? If so, please can you tell me what in particular? (Without 
giving away any secrets of course).

Is anybody on this list deploying CAS on Tomcat only?

Thanks

> 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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