On 07/05/2010 23:20, Smith, Mark wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Pid [mailto:p...@pidster.com] >> There are a couple of linux load balancer projects that might work, if >> you can ditch HTTPD. E.g. www.linuxvirtualserver.org > > We use LVS to balance load across our Apache layers already, so I'm quite > familiar with it. > > It does do what I want here, except that there are several things we need > from Apache: Access control, SSL termination, URL path based routing, etc. > > I considered using ipvsadm on the Apache box to route traffic to TomCats, but > there is another EC2 specific problem: All the routing methods LVS uses > don't work on EC2 because they _ONLY_ route TCP, UDP and ICMP: > - Direct Routing messes with Ethernet headers. Not a chance. > - Tunneling uses IP-in-IP tunneling, which is neither TCP, UDP nor ICMP. > *grump* > - NAT gets blocked by the EC2 firewalls, which makes sense. > - I even tried setting up GRE tunnels; no love. > > So, yeah. Thought of that already too. :-) > > Anyone else have any ideas? So far, modifying /etc/hosts looks like the best > solution, even though it tips my kludge-o-meter past my comfort zone.
Take a look at mod_cluster from JBoss. I haven't looked at it for a while but when I saw it at ApacheCon EU last year it looked like it might be what you are looking for. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org