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JBoss EAP6 High Availability

By : Weinan Li
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JBoss EAP6 High Availability

By: Weinan Li

Overview of this book

High availability is a system design approach and associated service implementation which ensures that a prearranged level of operational performance will be met during a contractual measurement period. High availability is usually a system combined with many different components that achieve different goals. High availability cluster implementations attempt to build redundancy into a cluster to eliminate single points of failure. JBoss EAP6 High Availability is the perfect guide for learning how to apply the newest technologies provided by JBoss to build your high availability system. With a clear explanation of the design of JBoss EAP6 and its clustering components, this book will help you customize each component to fulfill your specific requirements. Throughout the course of this book, you will learn how to build high availability clusters using the projects provided by JBoss. The book begins with an introduction to the design of JBoss EAP6 and its uses. The next step will be to explore the two companion open source projects - mod_jk and mod_cluster. In this section, you will get to grips with the concept of load balancing with mod_jk and mod_cluster. You will also learn how to enable SSL in the clustering environment and how to configure session replication between EAP6 servers. Furthermore, the appendix section introduces you to some troubleshooting techniques for Wildfly.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
JBoss EAP6 High Availability
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Compiling and installing Apache httpd


Now, let's learn how to compile and install Apache httpd. You may ask why we need to compile the Apache httpd by ourselves. There are multiple reasons. Usually, the httpd is provided by different platforms that have different versions and different configurations. For example, if you are using Ubuntu Linux and I'm using MacOS, our httpd versions will be different and our configurations of httpd will also be different.

In practice, compiling httpd, mod_jk, and mod_cluster is also common. This is because sometimes the newer versions of mod_jk and mod_cluster are released in the source code format before the binary format. So, we need to build them by ourselves.

Downloading httpd

First, let's download the source code of Apache httpd from its website. We'll use the httpd 2.2.x in this book. This branch is currently the most stable version to work with mod_jk and mod_cluster. At the time of this writing, the newest version in 2.2.x branch is httpd 2.2.25, so...