It is up to the origin servers to set the cookies; the balancer does not do that. It simply honors any stickness that may be present, but does not "create" the stickness. John Madden wrote: > > As with most load balancers, I assumed by "stickysession" we were > talking about balancing based only on the value of a cookie, but as far > as I've been able to tell, that is not the case. > > On 2.2.3, with a configuration of: > > ProxyRequests Off > ProxyPreserveHost On > ProxyPass / balancer://cluster/ stickysession=JSESSIONID nofailover=On > timeout=120 > <Proxy balancer://cluster/> > BalancerMember https://srv1.ivytech.edu:443 min=10 > BalancerMember https://srv2.ivytech.edu:443 min=10 > </Proxy> > > I'm finding that there really is no session affinity to the members at > all. There are a few various posts in various archives with the same > findings, but with no definite conclusion as to whether or not the > balancer's doing this by design... > > If we instead configure the BalancerMember's with routes and configure > the Tomcat with jvmRoutes accordingly, everything works as expected, but > without route specified, it's as if there is no session affinity at all. > So is mod_proxy_balancer intended to be a Tomcat-only feature, or are we > dealing with a bug here? (Or, *shudder,* have I incorrectly configured > something? :)) > > I'd be happy to provide debug logs if it seems appropriate. > > Thanks, > John > > > > > -- > John Madden > Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer > Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana > jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski [|] jim@xxxxxxxxxxx [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball." --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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