Why?

The Apache webserver provides a wealth of useful modules that can further enhance a website run using Content Control. For example, mod_cache can be set up to run as a reverse proxy significantly reducing the load on Content Control for popular pages. Likewise, mod_proxy can be used to load balance across mutliple Content Control instances running in a cluster.

Example Configuration

<VirtualHost *:80>
 
    # Basic configuration
	ServerName www.example.com
	ServerAdmin admin@example.com

	Redirect permanent / /cc7/
 
    # Proxying
	ProxyRequests Off
	<Proxy *>
		Order deny,allow
		Allow from all
	</Proxy>
 
	ProxyPass /cc7 http://localhost:8080/cc7
	ProxyPassReverse /cc7 http://localhost:8080/cc7
	ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /cc7 /cc7
 
    # Reverse proxy caching
        CacheEnable disk /cc7
 
    # Compression
        SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
        BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
        BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
        BrowserMatch \bMSIE\s(7|8) !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
        DeflateCompressionLevel 9
        Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
 
    # Logging
	LogLevel warn
	ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
	CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
 
</VirtualHost>

The configuration above proxies a private jBoss server running Content Control on port 8080 to the standard HTTP port 80. It provides disk caching and gzip compression to improve page load times.

The following Apache modules are required: mod_proxy,mod_proxy_http, mod_cache, mod_disk_cache and mod_headers.