Perhaps this is default behaviour but its not what I was expecting. I have the following conf on Apache 2.4
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName somedomain.com
ProxyPass /share http://127.0.0.1:8181/share
ProxyPass / balancer://cluster/ stickysession=JSESSIONID nofailover=Off
# define the balancer, with http and/or ajp connections
<Proxy balancer://cluster/>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
BalancerMember ajp://127.0.0.1:8010 route=g1
BalancerMember ajp://127.0.0.1:8011 route=g2
</Proxy>
</VirtualHost>
With this setup I have 2 tomcat instances being load balanced and a jetty instance which handles all requests via ProxyPass mounted to /share
I had an issue in production today where the jetty instance became unresponsive (garage collection/out of memory). However it also stopped all requests going to the 2 tomcat instances.
Does apache not handle this case? ie keep forwarding/load balancing request even if one of the proxypass becomes unresponsive?
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