Hello list! :)
Here at work I was asked to give a try on load balancing two tomcat
servers running tomcat 6.0.29. The problem is that I was given only two
servers to do this, what gave me only one option: run the apache in one
of these servers. So I decided to put the apache httpd server which is
going to balance the load among the two tomcat server in the Server A
(suppousing I have server A and B running linux). My application which
needs to be balanced has "/agent" context.
Everytime I access the URL http://servera/agent my request is redirect
either to http://servera:8080/agent or http://serverb:8080/agent. To my
understanding, with load balancing, my url would remain
http://servera/agent and the redirect would take place behing the scene
and I would never see any redirect to tomcat connector port (8080). By
the way, i am running the load balancing with mod_proxy in the apache
server and my configuration is as follow:
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ProxyPass /balancer-manager !
ProxyPass /status !
ProxyStatus On
ProxyRequests Off
<Location /balancer-manager>
SetHandler balancer-manager
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from localhost
</Location>
<Location /status>
SetHandler server-status
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from all
</Location>
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
<Proxy balancer://cluster>
BalancerMember http://servera:8080/agent/ route=worker0 keepalive=On
loadfactor=1
BalancerMember http://serverb:8080/agent/ route=worker1 keepalive=On
loadfactor=1
ProxySet lbmethod=byrequests maxattempts=3
stickysession=JSESSIONID|jsessionid
</Proxy>
<Location /agent>
ProxyPass balancer://cluster/ stickysession=JSESSIONID
ProxyPassReverse balancer://cluster/
</Location>
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Not happy with this scenario, i decided to install the apache httpd
server in my laptop and made it as my load balancer instead of using
servera to load balance. For my surprise, it worked out of the box with
no extra configuration other than the one set up in my servera. I see no
redirects to 8080 tomcat's port, due to my overall tests i could see
only my desired url: http//localhost/agent (since i was running my tests
with apache installed locally).
So my question is: does it make sense to have the load balancer in the
same server as one of the balanced server/application? Does mod_proxy
support this?
Many thanks for all the attention
Thiago
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