[users@httpd] force apache to always rebalance to same box for different tomcat contexts

[Andrey Ilyin <an...@db.com>]

Hi, 
I am having a serious issue for which I could not find solution. 
The configuration: 
Apache: 2.2 serving as load balancer as well 
workers.properties 
worker.list=balancer 
worker.engine1.port=10001 
worker.engine1.host=localhost 
worker.engine1.type=ajp13 
worker.engine1.lbfactor=1 
#worker.engine2.port=10002 
#worker.engine2.host=localhost 
#worker.engine2.type=ajp13 
#worker.engine2.lbfactor=1 
#worker.engine3.port=10003 
#worker.engine3.host=localhost 
#worker.engine3.type=ajp13 
#worker.engine3.lbfactor=1 
worker.balancer.type=lb 
worker.balancer.sticky_session=1 
worker.balancer.sticky_session_force=1 
worker.balancer.balance_workers=engine1,engine2,engine3 
Cluster of three Tomcat 6 instances with ajp connector with two webapps 
without session serialization e.g. 
<Connector 
port="10001" 
redirectPort="10011" 
connectionTimeout="-1" 
protocol="AJP/1.3"> 
</Connector> 
<Context path="/webapp1" distributable="false"> 
</Context> 
<Context path="/webapp2" distributable="false"> 
</Context> 
The problem is that once user logs in into webapp1 and goes to link to 
webapp2, it's not guarantied that he will go to same box as webapp 1. This 
results in session lost and sometimes Principal is not correctly setup. 
Using session serialization is not an option because sessions used in 
webapp1/webapp2 are very heavy and it results in awfull performance. 
Is there a way to force apache to always rebalance to same box for 
different tomcat contexts? 
Thanks, 
Andrey. 


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