On Thursday 30 September 2010 09:54:11 King Holger (CI/AFP2) wrote: Not only top posting, but also no quoting characters. Please fix that! > Hi Thomas, > > I had to disappoint you, because the relevant excerpt of the Tomcat > configuration below shows "jvmRoute" setup properly on EACH Tomcat > instance: > > "rb-wcmstc1" > <Engine name="Standalone" defaultHost="localhost" jvmRoute="rb-wcmstc1"> > > "rb-wcmstc2" > <Engine name="Standalone" defaultHost="localhost" jvmRoute="rb-wcmstc2"> > > So, might it be a BUG in Apache2 2.2.16? Is it possible to identify the > reason, why that happens on Apache2-side? How? Do as Thomas recommended and capture the cookies and session ids. The IDs you have in your first message look a bit unusual for tomcat generated session IDs. Additionally, you can set the Apache loglevel to debug for the VirtualHost that does the loadbalancing. mod_proxy will log details about selecting the backend worker. Rainer > > Kind regards, > Holger > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas [mailto:apache.org-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Mittwoch, 29. September 2010 23:31 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: "proxy_balancer" | stickysession > > Hi Holger, > > On 09/29/2010 04:53 PM, King Holger (CI/AFP2) wrote: > > 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: > [...] > > > 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? > > It looks like you did not set the jvmRoute-Attribute of the Engine tag > in your Tomcat configuration to "rb-wcmstc1" on the first and > "rb-wcmstc2" on the second server. > > mod_proxy_ajp (used by mod_proxy_balancer) identifies the Tomcat-backend > holding the session by looking up a suffix added to the JSESSIONID > cookie value. You can easily check whether the suffix is set or not by > logging the session id in the Tomcat access log (%S) or by logging > Cookie and Set-Cookie HTTP headers (logpattern: %{Cookie}i and > %{Set-Cookie}o) in your httpd access log. > > Regards, > Thomas > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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