Dear mailing list, currently, we use the Apache2 version: - Apache2 2.2.16 64bit - standard "mod_proxy_balancer" module with the following V-HOST configuration including a proxy balancer directive (with two Apache Tomcat instances behind): <Proxy balancer://fs4server> BalancerMember ajp://rb-wcmstc1.xx.xxxxx.xxx:8009 loadfactor=100 retry=10 route=rb-wcmstc1 BalancerMember ajp://rb-wcmstc2.xx.xxxxx.xxx:8009 loadfactor=100 retry=10 route=rb-wcmstc2 ProxySet stickysession=JSESSIONID ProxySet lbmethod=byrequests #ProxySet nofailover=On ProxySet timeout=30 </Proxy> In production environment, we discover connection switches from "rb-wcmstc1" to "rb-wcmstc2" and vice versa (documented in the Tomcat-Logs) for the same Session-ID: "rb-wcmstc1" tomcat@<rb-wcmstc1>:/opt/tomcat/logs $ grep -i "5893975846599935313" * log4j-catalina.log.13:TRACE 29.09.2010 14:16:58 (de.espirit.firstspirit.io.servlet.ClientIOServlet): Opening connection to 10.35.32.123, id=5893975846599935313 log4j-catalina.log.13:TRACE 29.09.2010 14:16:58 (de.espirit.firstspirit.io.servlet.ClientIOServlet): Server call from 10.35.32.123, id=5893975846599935313, clientLength=82, serverLength=79, serverResponseLength=1, 455 ms "rb-wcmstc2" DEBUG 29.09.2010 14:16:58 (de.espirit.firstspirit.io.servlet.ClientIOServlet): IO error with 10.35.32.123, port=1088, host=rb-wcmsfs4.de.bosch.com - java. lang.IllegalStateException: Connection '5893975846599935313' not found java.lang.IllegalStateException: Connection '5893975846599935313' not found at de.espirit.firstspirit.io.servlet.ClientIOServlet.callServer(ClientIOServlet.java:194) at de.espirit.firstspirit.io.servlet.ClientIOServlet.doPost(ClientIOServlet.java:117) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) Although, the "stickysession" attribute is set properly using the "JSESSIONID" cookie name and the Apache-Tomcat instances are up and running, the connection SWITCHES. Why? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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