How good is Nginx instead Apache

[dcarpio]

Hi everyone. I need to configure a JBoss Cluster (with AS 7) but I have to use Nginx as web server because it's already installed in the place that I'm working. I have found that Nginx is faster and lighter that Apache but what I really want to know is how dificult is to configure Nginx in order to work with JBoss AS7 and how it's performance in production environment.

I hope someone could answer my question. Thanks in advance.

[rhusar]

Well, nginx has build-in proxy support, so it will work out of box if you want to just use HTTP connector. You will need something like this:

server {

  listen   80;

  server_name example.com;

  root  /var/www/yourwebapp;

  location ~ \.jsp$ {

   proxy_pass   http://localhost:8080;

   proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

   proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

   proxy_set_header  Host $http_host;

  }

}

Also, I did see several modules to bring APJ support for nginx but I would be careful about their stability.

https://github.com/yaoweibin/nginx_ajp_module