mod_proxy_balancer questions

2006-05-06 Thread Bjørn Stabell
I've been playing replacing pound http://www.apsis.ch/pound/ with mod_proxy_balancer (mpb), and I've run into a few issues that I thought I'd share here, maybe confirm if I understood things correctly. 1) mpb logs when backend servers can't be contacted, but not when they are available

Proxy parameters to RewriteRule [P]

2006-05-05 Thread Bjørn Stabell
We're just trying out mod_proxy_balancer now and have come across some shortcomings or bugs. It doesn't seem like we can pass any of the Proxy parameters to RewriteRule, e.g., RewriteRule ^/mbp/(.*) balancer://ourcluster/$1 [P] timeout=20 nofailover=On stickysession=OUR_COOKIE doesn't

Standard MSIE tweaks for Apache

2006-04-17 Thread Bjørn Stabell
After switching to Apache 2.2.1 (the unreleased version) we found MS IE could no longer access our site (which has keepalive, mod_deflate, mod_proxy, and mod_ssl). At first I thought it was a keepalive or cipher problem, but it turned out to be a problem with IE (6.0) not being able to

Bug in rewrite or proxy?

2006-04-08 Thread Bjørn Stabell
Hi guys, I'd like a setup with ssl + proxy + deflate (and hopefully mod_proxy_balancer), but I'm running into problems: In Apache 2.0.54 (Debian Stable) there's no way to do deflate + proxy http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31226 In Apache 2.2.1 (the release candidate)

Re: Bug in rewrite or proxy?

2006-04-08 Thread Bjørn Stabell
On Apr 9, 2006, at 03:34, Ruediger Pluem wrote: As I investigated this one thing came up to my mind: If you use the proxy in the way described above the '*' worker will be used which will be created automatically. Having the generic '*' available is a good thing, BUT this is not optimal

mod_proxy_balancer connection pool limitation problem

2006-04-02 Thread Bjørn Stabell
Hi, I'm suspecting a bug, but posting here first to make sure. I've got a backend server running at machine X (192.168.0.242) and Apache running at machine Y, and I'd like to restrict the number of connections Apache makes to the backend server, but so far without any luck.

Re: mod_proxy_balancer connection pool limitation problem

2006-04-02 Thread Bjørn Stabell
Hi Ruediger, On Apr 2, 2006, at 22:54, Ruediger Pluem wrote: On 04/02/2006 04:46 PM, Bjørn Stabell wrote: VirtualHost *:80 ProxyPass /zope http://192.168.0.242:7680/ max=2 timeout=1 acquire=1 ttl=1 /VirtualHost I'm using mpm-worker, both machines are Linux