Monday, January 24, 2011

Tomcat should not be confused with the Apache web server

If it's been awhile since you've been in the Apache tool space you may have wrapped up Apache into Tomcat.

They're still a separate product offering and NOT bundled together. Wikipedia even mentions it here.

If you're looking for httpd.conf and configure files, those only are for the Apache web server, NOT in Tomcat...

I used the Apache server for a lot of Perl programs I wrote in the late 90s and early 00s; especially when I first started at Sun and had to maintain some legacy Perl scripts.

While I was an intern at Sun, Tomcat had been introduced by one of Sun's engineers and I began using it (in addition to JRun) for hosting JSP/Servlet applications.

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