Setup an Apache Load Balancer Example

Need to setup your Apache HTTP Server as a Load Balancer? In this quick example of how to setup an Apache Load Balancer with Tomcat, we'll show you how to enable the correct load balancer and reverse proxy modules in the httpd.conf file, we'll demonstrate how to set up a cluster that performs round robin load balancing with Apache Web Servers, and we'll even show you how to configure the Apache load balancer server as a reverse proxy. Why do so many organizations use Apache load balancing functions and configure it as a reverse proxy for Tomcat, Nginx, Kafka or other back-end resources? Well, because it's so easy to do so, and this Apache load balancer example will prove exactly that.