Ok, even if I execute a jsp-page in tomcat root and get a cookie with path=/
I get this problem so it has nothing to to with sharing sessions between
applications or cookie not reaching it correctly. Things just seems to stop
working properly when I add  emptySessionPath="true". 

Any idéas?

/John


JohnRiley wrote:
> 
> Right on target. I noticed that it was the emptySessionPath="true" that
> messed things up for me. When I removed it I got back to the wanted
> behavior. However, the emptySessionPath is needed since we are using
> mod_rewrite to change the url:s of the backend application. Otherwise we
> get a JSessionID with a "/path" rather than "/". 
> 
> When I removed the emptySessionPath we got back a new cookie with the
> correct route. When I have it on I get no sessionId back at all. So the
> solution would be that the root-context and my application should have the
> same JSESSIONID (is it possible) or I can deploy my applicaiton in the
> root directory.
> 
> /Johan
> 
> 
> 
> Rainer Jung-3 wrote:
>> 
>> On 18.05.2010 12:35, JohnRiley wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We are load balancing 3 non-clustered tomcat 6.0 servers with the mod_jk
>>> connector in apache 2.0. We have sticky sessions enabled and it works
>>> fine
>>> until one of the servers goes down. What happens then is that it start
>>> round-robin between the other two since none of them wants to accept the
>>> JSESSIONID with the route of the crashed tomcat server.
>>>
>>> How can I make one of the other servers to create a new session with its
>>> own
>>> jvmRoute for that tomcat? Because right now we have a huge problem when
>>> taking down a server for maintenance. The user will change server on
>>> each
>>> request until the server that is down for maintenance is back up again.
>>>
>>> Do we really have to setup the tomcats in a cluster to accomplish this?
>> 
>> Not sure I understand the real problem. If the app does "not accept" the 
>> sessionid, I would expect it to create a new session (and a new 
>> sessionid) using the correct local route.
>> 
>> Do you use emptySessionPath in the connector configuration inside 
>> server.xml?
>> 
>> Can't you add a simple servlet filter overwriting the JSESSIONID cookie 
>> if it's route doesn't match the local route?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Rainer
>> 
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