Ryan- The logic of the balancer requires a "route" to be defined in the balancer. Basically the balancer code gets your sessionid via the "stickysession" param then uses this value to find the right worker. If the sessionid contains a "." then only the part after the "." is considered as the route. In your case you have no "." in the cookie values so you should have a config like below. Note the "app1" and "app2" routes in the respective members of the balancer. <Location /> ProxyPass balancer://cluster/ stickysession=BIG Allow from all </Location> <Proxy balancer://cluster> BalancerMember http://vhost1 route=app1 BalancerMember http://vhost2 route=app2 </Proxy> Hope that helps, Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Johnson [mailto:rjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:11 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Sticky sessions with proxy_balancer Ryan (The Greater), No luck. I have two apache virtual hosts behind the load balancer, each setting a cookie called BIG, one to a value of app1 and the other to a value of app2. In the debug output I see the balancer module recognizing these values, but it continues to split the requests across both servers rather than staying on one server. I know with a F5 BIGIP you call the cookies by a certain name and set the values to an encoding of their ip and port. Any ideas? Thanks, Ryan (The True Lesser) Ryan Murray wrote: > Ryan- > > Yes it works for sure in httpd-2.2.4 but pay attention that this > parameter is case sensitive. So if your cookie is "JSESSIONID" it > must be written in upper case like this in the config file. Note for > Java the cookie is "JESESSIONID" whereas the path parameter is > ";jsessionid" (lc) and mod_proxy balancer doesn't handle this as it > checks for the same case sensitive name for both the path and the cookie. > > Turn your error log level to debug (LogLevel DEBUG in httpd.conf)and > optionally do a tail -f <logfile> | grep "BALANCER" and you'll see > when mod_proxy_balancer thinks it is getting a hit for the session param. > > If you are working with Java and need the dual case version I have a > patched the source for httpd-2.2.4 to allow specifying a > stickysessionpath param in the balancer config so it finds both Cookie and path managed sessions. > > Cheers, > Ryan (the lesser) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Johnson [mailto:rjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:20 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Sticky sessions with proxy_balancer > > Hey all, > > I am trying to get sticky sessions to work with mod_proxy_balancer, > with no luck. > I have set stickysession=COOKIENAME. > > Have not found any good doc on this? Anyone get this working? > > Thanks in advance, > Ryan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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