Configure Multiple Instances of Apache (HTTPD) on Same Server

There are many cases where I need to work with multiple instances of Apache Server. This article tells you on how to configure multiple instances of Apache on the same server. 1. Duplicate the Http Configuration File     cp /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd1.conf 2. Duplicate the conf.d location     cp -pr /etc/httpd/conf/conf.d/  /etc/httpd/conf/conf.d2/ 3. Change...

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Oracle HTTP Server

Oracle HTTP Server is the Web server component of Oracle Application Server. It is based on the Apache HTTP Server. Oracle HTTP Server is pre-configured with many modules that Servers Static and Dynamic Content Supports Content Generation in many languages Integrated with oracle web logic server using mod_wl_ohs Can be...

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Apache Load Balancer Module with Tomcat

Load Balancing is one of the important Aspect when running production servers. Load balancing provides many additional benefits in the production environment. In this article we will see how we can configure Apache Http Server to load balance requests that are going to the back end Tomcat server. For the demo purpose I will have multiple tomcat instances with the same application running on the context and configure apache...

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Apache Server Status – mod_status module

In a production environment we will be maintaining many number of Apache instances for processing the user requests. It is hard for a administrator to manage these multiple instances of the apache servers. Apache provide various numbers of modules for various operations. There is one module called mod_status.so which provides out-of-the-box functionality for monitoring the performance of Apache installations. In this article...

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Reverse Proxy with apache Web Server and Tomcat

A proxy is a piece of software that supports sending and receiving data on behalf of another application. It’s an intermediate layer on your network that receives requests from within the networks, forwards them to the appropriate host, reads the response, and sends the response back to the requesting host or application within the network. There are 2 types of proxy available, A forward proxy is an Internet-facing...

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Apache Server Integration with Weblogic Cluster

In this article we will see how we can configure Apache server with a weblogic Cluster and access a application deployed in the weblogic cluster. 1. Configure weblogic Cluster with the below nodes as below MS1:17003 MS2:17004 2. Once the Configuration of the Servers is completed, add them to a cluster and deploy a sample application to the cluster (in this case I deployed a sample application which will print the session...

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Apache Server Basic Authentication with Weblogic

In this article we will see how to configure basic Authentication in Apache server which will allow to ask for a user name and password. 1. Create a file in a location like myuser.txt. add the contents testuser:testuser This the user name and password combination 2. Now once the file is created we need to encrypt the password using using the htpasswd command like [root@localhost conf]# htpasswd -b myuser.txt testuser...

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