Monthly Archives: February 2010

Technical

Excluding directories in AJP ProxyPass

Configuring Apache with Tomcat

You might have ProxyPass configured to pass all requests to Tomcat. However its better to serve some content directly from Apache for speed – images for instance. If you arrange your site into a well planned folder structure you can exclude certain folders in proxy_ajp.conf.

You might have this:

ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8080/

Just add this line BEFORE the catch-all above:

ProxyPass /images !
ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8080/

The file is parsed in order, so the exclude must come first.

Watch out for more Tomcat tips and tricks in the future.  Information on our market leading Tomcat hosting can be found here

Opinion

UK Internet Governance Forum

Internet Governance Forum
Internet Governance Forum

2020Media attended the recent UK internet governance forum, held at the Department for Business Innovation and Skills on 3rd February.

The meeting brought together reports  from the international Sharm El Sheikh meeting, and discussed the future of the IGF. Chaired by a cross-party group of MPs, the meeting attracted representatives, from amongst others, Nominet, Childnet, LINX, Internet Safety groups and regional goverment.

Although 2020Media is a small part of the internet in the UK, we believe participation in events like the UK Internet Governance Forum is important. At the moment, we are lucky enough that we as ordinary users and businesses can have a say in the governance and direction of internet strategy so it’s essential that we exercise that right.

One of the sections focussed on GreenIT, which we promote through EcoServ, a division offering highly efficient dedicated servers and virtualisation technology.