June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
7h 50m
English
A quite common setup for Java EE application servers, where clients are use HTTP, is to have a native web server, such as Apache HTTPD, acting as a frontend server. This setup has the following potential benefits:
In this book, we use Apache HTTPD as an example, as it is very versatile and is the most common web server in the world. Several options, such as nginx and lighttpd, are however available and should be evaluated before deciding on which to use.
In most scenarios, ...