Apache httpd as a AJP listener?

Hello all, may this message find you all well and flame-free

Is there a way to get httpd to use the Jakarta protocol? The
university I work for has standardized on IIS (I have no say in the
matter) and I'm looking for a good way to get IIS to work as a reverse
proxy to our mainframe's httpd instance.

I've discovered the niceties of IIS and Tomcat playing together with
the ajp connector, and am curious if anyone's looked into a module for
Apache httpd that groks this protocol as well, so one may use the
Jakarta protocol in order to set up httpd as the benefactor of a
reverse proxy (and not the proxy itself).

I know this is a bit convoluted and I'm sure there's an easier (but
more costly) way to accomplish what I want (make IIS a reverse proxy),
but I thought I'd throw this one out to see what I could find.

Thanks in advance!

Josh Peters

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> Hello all, may this message find you all well and flame-free
>
> Is there a way to get httpd to use the Jakarta protocol? The
> university I work for has standardized on IIS (I have no say in the
> matter) and I'm looking for a good way to get IIS to work as a reverse
> proxy to our mainframe's httpd instance.
>
> I've discovered the niceties of IIS and Tomcat playing together with
> the ajp connector, and am curious if anyone's looked into a module for
> Apache httpd that groks this protocol as well, so one may use the
> Jakarta protocol in order to set up httpd as the benefactor of a
> reverse proxy (and not the proxy itself).
>
> I know this is a bit convoluted and I'm sure there's an easier (but
> more costly) way to accomplish what I want (make IIS a reverse proxy),
> but I thought I'd throw this one out to see what I could find.

Doesn't "mod_proxy_ajp" not do what you want?