Regarding the 'quotes' issue - I'll explain... In the server.xml file for the Tomcat server you name your jvm route something like... jvmRoute="tc1" And in my case, the Apache httpd.conf, you name the route like... BalancerMember ajp://127.0.0.1:18009 route=tc1 For a couple of days I had... route="tc1" because I had copy/pasted the value from the XML! I understand that this may not apply to you directly, but take note that in the usual configuration files that are NOT XML they mostly do not require quotes. Here's a snippet from my Apache httpd.conf file that show how I load balanced my set-up. I needed only a specific sub-URL, hence the weird ProxyPass, but it *should* work for other URL settings. ====Start Snippet <Proxy balancer://mycluster> # Does not seem to matter which one of these are used for the ajp path. BalancerMember ajp://127.0.0.1:18009 route=tc1 BalancerMember ajp://127.0.0.1:28009 route=tc2 # BalancerMember ajp://localhost:18009 route=tc1 # BalancerMember ajp://localhost:28009 route=tc2 </Proxy> # Using JSESSIONID or JSESSIONSSO for stickysession seems to make no difference. ProxyPass /myServer balancer://mycluster/myServer stickysession=JSESSIONID lbmethod=bytraffic <Location /balancer-manager> SetHandler balancer-manager Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.1 </Location> ====End snippet Then my Tomcat1 server.xml (change ports etc for the 2nd Tomcat) contains this (I've left some parts out)... ====Start snippet <Service name="Catalina"> <Connector port="18080" redirectPort="18443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" connectionTimeout="20000" /> <Connector port="18009" redirectPort="18443" protocol="AJP/1.3" /> <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" jvmRoute="tc1"> <Cluster className="org.apache.catalina.ha.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster" /> <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> <!-- This is here so that all servlets under the host have single sign on authentication. --> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn" debug="0"/> </Host> </Engine> </Service> ====End Snippet Again - This is how I did it using Apache 2.2 and Tomcat 6 - you're set-up is different and this may not solve your problems. Just thought it might help. -- Rob (rob.rstuff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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