[mod_cluster-dev] Connection between JBoss 7 and httpd in mod-cluster

[Paul Ferraro]

HTTP/HTTPS is used for MCMP - AJP is used for request/response forwarding.

But, you raise a good point.
Jean-Frederic, why doesn't AS7 define an AJP connector by default, like we had in AS5/6 and EAP5?

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bela Ban" <bban at redhat.com>
> To: "Paul Ferraro" <paul.ferraro at redhat.com>, "Jean-Frederic" <jclere at redhat.com>, "mod cluster"
> <mod_cluster-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 7:30:28 AM
> Subject: Connection between JBoss 7 and httpd in mod-cluster
> 
> Hi Paul, Jean-Frederic,
> 
> the manual (section 9.3 SSL Configuration) states that "the
> communication channel between application servers and httpd proxies
> use
> HTTP by default".
> 
> I thought the communication between appservers and httpd mod-cluster
> uses AJP by default ? Has this changed to HTTP ?
> 
> I changed the following 2 things (in standalone-ha.xml in AS 7):
> 
> <connector name="ajp" protocol="AJP/1.3" socket-binding="ajp"
> max-connections="400"/>
> <socket-binding name="ajp" port="8009"/>
> 
> and then "netstat -na |grep 8009" and the mod-cluster-manager
> "show-info
> command" actually showed that AJP was now used, compared to HTTP
> before.
> 
> 
> Do I have to enable this to actually make the workers communicate
> with
> httpd via AJP and not via HTTP ?
> 
> Or am I mistaken and this is only used for MCMP, but not
> request/response forwarding ?
> 
> --
> Bela Ban
> Lead JGroups (http://www.jgroups.org)
> JBoss / Red Hat
>