Chapter 4. Integration of Tomcat with the Apache Web Server
The Apache HTTP server is one of the most widely used frontend web servers across the IT industry. This project was open sourced in 1995 and is owned by The Apache Software Foundation.
This chapter is very useful for the web administrator who works on enterprise-level web integration. It gives a very good idea about how integration is implemented in IT organizations. So, if you are thinking of enhancing your career in enterprise-level integrations of applications, then read this chapter carefully.
In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:
The Apache HTTP installation
The various modules of Apache
Integration of Apache with Tomcat 7
How IT industry environments are set up
User request flow (web/application level)
Before we discuss the installation of Apache, let's discuss a high-level overview of how the request flows from the web and application server for an application in IT industries. The following figure shows the process...
