On 03/04/2013 2:02 AM, "Sean Alderman" <salderm...@udayton.edu> wrote: > > Greetings, > I am running httpd 2.2.23.0-64 with mod_proxy to load balance Tomcat 6.0.36.B containers. I have encountered a somewhat strange situation, and I was wondering if anyone could comment and or propose an alternative. > > I have a case where my tomcat containers have multiple webservice applications deployed. Most of the deployments are stateless, but a few of them require session stickiness at the proxy layer. I am looking for ways to better distribute the workload of the stateless webservice calls, with the hope of not having to create a new tomcat container separate stateful and stateless sessions. The following configuration was tested, but had unexpected results... > > <Proxy balancer://webservices-sticky> > BalancerMember > ajp://tccontainer2.test.udayton.edu:12002route=webservices2-sticky > BalancerMember > ajp://tccontainer1.test.udayton.edu:12002route=webservices1-sticky status=+H > ProxySet lbmethod=byrequests > ProxySet stickysession=JSESSIONID > </Proxy> > > <Proxy balancer://webservices> > BalancerMember ajp://tccontainer1.test.udayton.edu:12002 loadfactor=1 route=webservices1 > BalancerMember ajp://tccontainer2.test.udayton.edu:12002 loadfactor=2 route=webservices2 > ProxySet lbmethod=byrequests > </Proxy> > > What I find is that balancer://webservices never sends any requests to ajp://tccontainer1.test.udayton.edu:12002.
Thats because it never gets used, the requests are always being served by the first proxy. Why do you have 2 of them? It would appear that the status=+H applies to the BalancerMember object instead of balancer://webservices-sticky. Correct, it means that that balancer member is hot standby as explained in the documentation.