On Tuesday 24 November 2009 12:47:16 Onur Ağın wrote: > Yes, the cookie is JSESSIONID, > In the server response, Set-Cookie:JSESSIONID=xxxxx;path=xxx; > I am using a tomcat 6.0 server. The tomcat should reply: Set-Cookie:JSESSIONID=xxxxx.TOMCAT1;path=xxx; It lacks the . and the route to the tomcat. Add this to the server.xml of the tomcat1: <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="xxx.com" debug="0" jvmRoute="TOMCAT1"> Best regards, Nuno Fernandes > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Boyle Owen <Owen.Boyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > Forget the failover thing - Let's get back to your original problem > > which is stickysession not working. > > > > Have you checked you have the session cookie in the request and that > > it's called JSESSIONID? > > Check http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass for > > details on how it is supposed to work. > > > > Rgds, > > Owen Boyle > > Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > ________________________________ > > > > From: Onur Agin [mailto:onuragin@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:23 PM > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: Load balancer sticky session problem > > > > > > What if I have a session clustering mechanism which works > > asynchronously, so if host A fails, then the sessions will be replicated > > to server B in several seconds, and if the session is sticky and request > > is moved to B, only request that will come on that second will fail. But > > if the load balancer is not sticky, it won't work since the sessions are > > not replicated realtime > > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Boyle Owen > > > > <Owen.Boyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > ? ? ? "The downside is that if the desired server is > > > > really down, the > > request > > > > > ? ? ? will eventually fail." > > > > > > ? ? ? I wouldn't want this, the reason why I am using > > > > a load balancer > > is to have high availability, > > > > > not just to balance a load. > > > > > > ? ? ? How can I overcome this? > > > ? ? ? Aren't there any alternatives? > > > > What do you imagine can happen? If you want sessions to > > be sticky then > > if a request has session ID that points to server-A, the > > request *must* > > go there. If server-A is unavailable, the request must > > wait. > > > > Alternatively, you can allow failover and then the > > request will go > > straight to server-B, but then it has the wrong session > > cookie. > > > > Session affinity and failover are mutually exclusive - > > there is no way > > round it. > > > > > ? ? ? Also what does it mean to be busy? > > > ? ? ? Currently I am using my pc to act as a load > > > > balancer in front of > > powerfull servers and there > > > > > is only one page request, how can it be busy? > > > > No idea. It's your server.. You posted that > > stickysession wasn't working > > and I posted back a possible explanation and something > > to try (did you?) > > Maybe it's not the problem - try it and see :-) > > > > > > Rgds, > > Owen Boyle > > Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may > > be ignored. > > > > > > > > > > ? ? ? ?On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Boyle Owen > > <Owen.Boyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?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. 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