Moving Static content to Apache from Tomcat

[Aruneesh Salhotra]

Hi,
I want to know what is the way to move static content from tomcat to apache.
Regards
Aruneesh

[Bear Bibeault]

What do you mean by 'move'?

And why? What would Apache do for you that Tomcat doesn't?

[William A White]

If you've got a site that is mostly static content it was a good performance boost to let Apache serve it up and just pass the JSP through to Tomcat. I say was because I don't believe this is true if you have Tomcat 5, and probably a couple versions before that.

Still, here are some other reasons from the horse's mouth:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/faq/connectors.html#integrate

It's not a lot of fun to set it up.

[Aruneesh Salhotra]

Basically we have a 3 tomcat servers configured in a pool, and either of them could serve the requests (JSP, Servlets).
For static content, we currently have 3 apache servers, but currently apache is being used to do RSA authentication and nothing else.

So apache resources could be used to render static content.