----- Original Message ----- > This may be a stupid idea, but has anyone had any experience > load-balancing two Apache (2.2 in our case) servers that are running > mod_dav? We've searched and searched and it looks like it's just > something that no one at all talks about. I've been thinking about this for some time, but then decided that it's generally a stupid idea. Mostly because there are a couple dozen of Dav clients and all of them have their own interpretation of how to speak to a Dav Server. My idea back then was to have subversion read/write -- but that seems like a terribly stupid idea because you have no way to split it up properly. > We've got a setup in production where we've got Apache 2.2.17 servers That sounds like a bad idea. Have you considered starting with test? > on two different machines (1 per machine) ,identical, each with What kind of storage do they sit on? This is crucial, because mod_dav works with FS locks. > mod_dav. They're both sitting behind a hardware load-balancer that > does a port rewrite sending traffic to only one of the two. We'd > like to let it round-robin between both, but were unsure whether > that was safe/wise/possible. Round-robin seems like the best idea, but only if you enable sticky sessions. i -- Igor GaliÄ Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.galic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://brainsware.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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