5.0

Overview of vFabric Web Server 3
VMware vFabric Cloud Application
Platform 5.0 3
2. Overview of vFabric Web Server
vFabric Web Server is the Web server and load-balancing component of VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform (vFabric
Platform). vFabric Web Server 5.0 is based on Apache HTTP Server version 2.2.
In addition to the standard features of Apache HTTP Server, vFabric Web Server provides the following mission-critical benefits:
• Ability to easily install multiple instances of vFabric Web Server running on a single computer.
• Scalable management of multiple Web sites and servers; you can run and manage hundreds of instances of vFabric Web
Server.
• Support for heterogeneous environments (32- and 64-bit architectures): Ubuntu, RHEL, and Microsoft Windows. vFabric Web
Server can be updated and patched across all servers at once. See Supported Platforms for details.
Subtopics
Complete Packages and Modules in vFabric Web Server 5
Supported Platforms
Complete Packages and Modules in vFabric Web Server 5.0
This section lists the complete contents of vFabric Web Server 5.0.
This document describes features and functionality for vFabric Web Sever 5.0. For general information about new
features in Apache HTTP Server 2.2, see the Apache Web site.
• Core Apache HTTP 2.2 Binaries
• Apache mod_ftp 0.9.6
• Apache mod_fcgid 2.3.6 (a FastCGI invoker)
• OpenSSL 0.9.8r
• OpenLDAP 2.3.43
• mod_jk 1.2.31
• mod_bmx (Hyperic plug-in for monitoring support)
• libexpat 2.0.1
• libapr 1.4.3
• libaprutil 1.3.11
• zlib 1.2.3
mod_fcgid Implementation of Connector to FastCGI
The mod_fcgid distributed with vFabric Web Server 5.0 is an implementation of the connector to FastCGI applications. This
module allows the user to provision FastCGI providers such as PHP or Ruby on Rails from third parties, running out-of-process
from the server itself.
Many applications can be built to support FastCGI; consult your language or application documentation for details. The
application providing FastCGI services is launched by mod_fcgid on the initial request, and reused for subsequent requests to that
application or language environment.