faster ( squid + apache httpd + apache tomcat )
- by letronje
We have a production setup where we have
Squid in the front(caching images, js, css, etc)
Apache httpd in the middle(prefork + mod_rewrite + mod_jk/AJP + mod_deflate + mod_php(few php pages))
Apache tomcat 5.5 at the end serving all the dynamic stuff.
What would be the best way to reduce the overhead of having 3 servers in the request path ?
Wondering if replacing httpd with a faster web server like nginx/lighttpd will help. httpd right now does the job of url rewriting(for clean urls) and talking to tomcat(via mod_jk) and compressing output(mod_deflate) and serving some low traffic php pages. What would be ideal replacement for httpd given that we need these features?
Is there a way to replace (squid + apache) with a single entity that does caching well (like squid) for static stuff, rewrites url, compresses response and forwards dynamic stuff directly to tomcat ? heard abt varnish cache, wondering if it can help.
