The Apache Tomcat Connector

Using proxies with Tomcat

It easy to use the standard Http proxy of Apache when single Tomcat is connected to Apache.

<Location /examples/>
ProxyPass http://localhost:8080/examples/
ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080/examples/
</Location>

The AJP proxy is a new module based on the standard Http proxy it uses AJP instead of HTTP.

<Location /examples/>
   ProxyPass ajp://localhost:8009/examples/
</Location>

It is possible to use the load balancer of the mod_proxy_balancer module.

<Proxy balancer://myCluster>
   BalancerMember ajp://localhost:8009
   BalancerMember ajp://example.org:8009
</Proxy>
<Location /examples/>
    ProxyPass balancer://myCluster/examples/
</Location>

AJP proxy is integrated in httpd-2.1 and the developement and discussions take place there. The documentation can be found there mod_proxy_ajp and mod_proxy_balancer.