Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

> Also, a detail: is it preferable to use mod_jk or mod_proxy, which also 
> supports AJP?

I think we have had this discussion before, and it didn't result in changing 
anyone's mind.  I recently did a bunch of load testing about all the various 
settings in mod_jk, and I should have tried mod_proxy or mod_proxy_ajp.  If 
they perform the same, I guess mod_proxy is better...  especially if it can 
translate env vars to something Java (e.g. for cosign authentication).

Here is a comparison:

http://blog.jboss.org/blog/mturk/2007/07/16/Comparing_mod_proxy_and_mod_jk.txt

His conclusion is to use mod_jk if you can, which is how I feel, but like 
him, it is probably because that is what I have used and am comfortable 
with... :)

Maybe I should stress more that the instructions there are just how I do 
things, not how everyone should.  E.g. there are things you can do to lock 
down apache, things should probably run as different users than each other, 
etc.  It is just a quick start example.

Having said that, if you know the directives and configs for mod_proxy and 
want to post it on the page in addition to mod_jk, that will give people an 
option there...   I'd be interested to see that since I think the 
workers.properties is kind of limiting for certain kinds of load balancing... 
:)

Regards,
Chris