anton wrote: > Thanks, Krist. I thought that it should work in > theory too, but it doesn't in practice :( Basically, > about 10% of requests to www.mydomain.com fail (time > out) if I set the servernames to www.mydomain.com for > both servers and then try to use VirtualHosts. We > have to use virtualhosts because we need things like > partner1.mydomain.com and partner2.mydomain.com. > > I am not sure what to do at this point. > > Anton > > --- Krist van Besien <krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > >> On 3/8/07, anton <way_uhf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I'm a decently experienced apache user on ONE >>> webserver. I'm trying to switch to two apache >>> >> servers >> >>> behind a Foundry hardware load balancer. >>> >>> I need a tutorial which would explain how to >>> >> configure >> >>> multiple apache servers behind a hardware load >>> balancer. >>> >>> I have a domain name correctly resolving to the >>> balancer's ip and the balancer correctly >>> >> forwarding >> >>> the requests to each server. That's working fine. >>> Things get confusing when I try to configure each >>> server's ServerName and virtual hosts. >>> >>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >>> >> You just need to make sure each server has the >> server name that the >> client sees. So if you have >> www.mydomain.com >> and this resolves correctly to the loadbalancer than >> you just need to have >> ServerName www.mydomain.com >> in your config on each server. >> >> In theory you could even run each webserver with the >> same httpd.conf. >> >> Krist >> >> -- >> krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx >> Bremgarten b. Bern, Switzerland >> -- >> A: It reverses the normal flow of conversation. >> Q: What's wrong with top-posting? >> A: Top-posting. >> Q: What's the biggest scourge on plain text email >> discussions? >> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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 >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > this might sound silly, but since neither backend server needs DNS, do you have hostname lookups off, do you have all your vhosts of the form <vhost ip:port> servername www.mydomain.com </vhost> rather than <vhost www.mydomain.com:port> servername www.mydomain.com </vhost> could this be a hosts or DNS issue, a throw over from when things referred to different NICs/IPs, have you tried a packet sniffer like wireshark - my answer to almost every apache debuggering session, and tried to see why those tcp requests aren't happening, or whether its a http issue? ignore me if I'm barking incoherently. matt --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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