It certainly has better logging then mod_ajp_proxy and that helps alot during troubleshooting or performance tuning. The ability to set max packet size above 8kB is also a good point for some deployments. As for performance, some tests showed slight advantage of mod_jk to mod_ajp_proxy, but the main seemed to be the usage of Tomcat's native module regardless of AJP module used.
LoadModule jk_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_jk.so # points to a file that provides a mapping between a worker name and a valid worker type JkWorkersFile /etc/httpd/conf/worker.properties JkLogFile /var/log/httpd/mod_jk.log # allows log levels: debug, info, error JkLogLevel info JkLogStampFormat "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] " JkRequestLogFormat "%w %V %T" # JkOptions - see http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/reference/apache.html <Location /jkstatus/> JkMount status # Order deny,allow # Deny from all # Allow from 127.0.0.1 Allow from all </Location> <VirtualHost *:80> # which URI contexts are sent to a ASF Tomcat worker - exact, context or suffix match JkMount /* tomcat1 </VirtualHost>
Note: JkMount must be defined in VirtualHost to work.
worker.properites:
worker.list=tomcat1 worker.tomcat1.type=ajp13 worker.tomcat1.host=localhost worker.tomcat1.port=8009 ## when using mpm prefork, the pool_size should be set to "1" worker.tomcat1.connection_pool_size=1 worker.tomcat1.connection_pool_timeout=600 worker.tomcat1.socket_keepalive=1 max_packet_size=65536
JkWorkerProperty directive allows to move content of the worker.properties file to apache config.
