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Overview of vFabric Web Server 3
VMware vFabric Suite 5.1 3
2. Overview of vFabric Web Server
vFabric Web Server is the Web server and load-balancing component of VMware vFabric Suite. vFabric Web Server 5.1 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): Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), AIX, Solaris, and
Microsoft Windows. vFabric Web Server can be updated and patched across all servers at once. See Supported Configurations
and System Requirements for details.
Complete Packages and Modules in vFabric Web Server 5.1
This section lists the complete contents of vFabric Web Server 5.1.
This document describes features and functionality for vFabric Web Sever 5.1. For general information about new
features in Apache HTTP Server 2.2, see the Apache Web site.
• Core Apache HTTP 2.2.22 Binaries
• Apache mod_ftp 0.9.6
• Apache mod_fcgid 2.3.6 (a FastCGI invoker)
• OpenSSL 1.0.1a
• OpenLDAP 2.3.43
• mod_jk 1.2.31
• mod_bmx (Hyperic plug-in for monitoring support)
• libexpat 2.1.0
• libpcre 8.30
• libapr 1.4.5
• libaprutil 1.3.12
• libiconv 1.11
• zlib 1.2.3
• unzip 6.0
You typically install vFabric Web Server from the vfabric-web-server-version package, which contains all the
preceding compiled modules. For your convenience, VMware also makes a vfabric-web-server-devel-version
package available which you can use to build HTTPD modules. Typically, you install the -devel package only on development
computers, and not on production computers.
mod_fcgid Implementation of Connector to FastCGI
The mod_fcgid distributed with vFabric Web Server 5.1 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.