Well... as far as I know there is an option to check if a backend is available (up to a certain level).
Look in the documentation for ping_mode (mod_jk 1.2.27) http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/generic_howto/timeouts.html Hubert -----Original Message----- From: gerhardus.geldenh...@gta-travel.com [mailto:gerhardus.geldenh...@gta-travel.com] Sent: 06 February 2009 14:19 To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: RE: mod_jk > > 1) As far as I know, no, mod_jk does not read workers.properties > dynamically. > 2) Yes and no, it will not send a request unless communication has been > established with the worker, it may happen that the worker fails, or > someone shut it down. Depending on how you configure the workers and > the > number of workers, it can retry the request and/or try a different > worker. Mod_jk will mark the worker on error when it does not respond, > and it will try again after a configurable time -but it tries again > with > an actual request-. > It would be really nice if you could test availability of a node with a configurable request instead of a live production request... (hint, hint) Regards ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
