Hi this is my fifth part of the Tomcat Clustering Series . In this post we are going to discuss how to replace Apache httpd load balancer to Nginx as a load balancer. [Check the video below for better understanding] Hi i finished Tomcat Clustering Series . In these series we have 2 big setups needed for Tomcat Clustering Setup and configure the Load Balancer Configure the Session Replication in Tomcat. In first setup, we configure the Load Balancer using Apache httpd web server. Its open source and widely used. Second setup is session replication in Tomcat through modify/add <cluster> tag in server.xml file. These tomcat instance may run on single machine or different machine. In our Tomcat Clustering Series , the big part is configure the Load balancer (Apache httpd web server). Because there are lots of steps are involved Install the Apache httpd web server from either source or repo Compile and install the mod_jk connector Create the workers.pr