A 404 is no error regarding balancing and a proper HTTP response by the backend. You need to send back a HTTP_INTERNAL_ERROR or a HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE in this case but without any error page.
Regards Rüdiger > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Kevac Marko > Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. Juni 2009 13:27 > An: dev@httpd.apache.org > Cc: denn nevera > Betreff: mod_proxy. mod_proxy_balancer and failovers > > Hello. > > I am using mod_proxy and mod_proxy_balancer for proxying requests to > group of workers. > Recentry I have stumbled upon issues with failover retries when worker > returns error. > > For example I have balancer with 10 equal workers. One of them breaks > and for 1 of 10 requests return HTTP_NOT_FOUND. > > I am not able to tell or configure either mod_proxy or > mod_proxy_balancer to make request to another worker if previous one > returns HTTP_NOT_FOUND. > > I think that this should be pretty demanding feature. What do you > think? I am willing to fix mod_proxy and to implement this feature. By > the way nginx has it. > > -- > Marko Kevac >
