Try adding "nofailover=On" to the Proxy tag, ie <Proxy balancer://ow1 stickysession=JSESSIONID lbmethod=byrequests nofailover=On> ... By default, if the desired balancer member is busy, the request will be routed to another one, even if the stickysession doesn't match (this is "failover"). To force apache to hold the request until the server is free again, you need to switch this off by switching ON "nofailover" (so switching OFF "failover" - confusing, eh? :-) The downside is that if the desired server is really down, the request will eventually fail. Rgds, Owen Boyle Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. ________________________________ From: Onur Agin [mailto:onuragin@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:05 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Load balancer sticky session problem Hi, With the configuration below, sticky sessions won't work... I checked that both servers get the request with the same session IDs. Any ideas? <VirtualHost *:8001> # Proxy ProxyRequests Off <Proxy *> ??Order deny,allow ??Allow from all </Proxy> <Proxy balancer://ow1 stickysession=JSESSIONID lbmethod=byrequests> ??BalancerMember http://10.xxx:7101 ??BalancerMember http://10.xxx:7102 </Proxy> ProxyPass / balancer://ow1/ </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:8002> # Proxy ProxyRequests Off <Proxy *> ??Order deny,allow ??Allow from all </Proxy> <Proxy balancer://ow2 stickysession=JSESSIONID lbmethod=byrequests> ??BalancerMember http://10.xxx:7103 ??BalancerMember http://10.xxx:7104 </Proxy> ProxyPass / balancer://ow2/ </VirtualHost> Also my request header is: GET /xxx/resources/org.apache.wicket.markup.html.WicketEventReference/wicket -event.js;jsessionid=76BF17CE24DB39AC8F6B3639BBA5727D HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* Referer: http://10.xxx:8001/xxx/?class=texan.acq.ui.param.MERPARAM Accept-Language: en-us Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; MS-RTC LM 8; InfoPath.2) Host: 10.xxx:8001 Connection: Keep-Alive Cookie: JSESSIONID=76BF17CE24DB39AC8F6B3639BBA5727D This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender urgently and then immediately delete the message and any copies of it from your system. Please also immediately destroy any hardcopies of the message. The sender's company reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through their networks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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