Re: Fallbacks for load-balanced mod_jk workers

2001-09-06 Thread David Cassidy
What you might find the easiest is to use apache's ErrorDocument 500 command very useful. If tomcat is down apache generates a 500 error. Apache can then intercept that and use a page ( static HTML/CGI/Other URL) to generate a 'we've gone walkies for a bit - back soon' type message David PS I

Re: Fallbacks for load-balanced mod_jk workers

2001-09-06 Thread Simon Oldeboershuis
Hi Scott, if you are using apache you can do something like ErrorDocument 500 http://www.reliable-server.com/serverDown/message.html If any errors occurs with the connectors, the html page is shown or another failsafe tomcat ;-) I never tested it with more than one worker, but it should work

Fallbacks for load-balanced mod_jk workers

2001-09-06 Thread Scott Jones
Hello, I am setting up a set of boxes as follows. There are two machines running Apache 1.3.19 and then there are three machines running tomcat 3.2.3. I have a worker linking each of the apache machines to each tomcat server (for a total of 6 tomcat instances). What I'm wondering is say for so