[users@httpd] sticky_session doesn't work

[王科选 <ra...@gmail.com>]

   Hi, I'm using Apache/2.2.16 (Win32) mod_jk/1.2.30 , and had set the 
sticky_session=1, but it doesn't work!

will someone help me please, thanks!

Here is the workers.properties:

     worker.list = balancer,status

      worker.tomcat1.port=8010

      worker.tomcat1.host=10.3.1.17
      worker.tomcat1.type=ajp13
      worker.tomcat1.lbfactor = 1

      worker.tomcat2.port=8010
      worker.tomcat2.host=10.3.1.18
      worker.tomcat2.type=ajp13
      worker.tomcat2.lbfactor = 1

      worker.balancer.type=lb
      worker.balancer.balance_workers=tomcat1,tomcat2
      worker.balancer.sticky_session=1

      worker.status.type=status

And I'm also wondering how apache descides which tomcat a session 
belongs to ?

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Re: [users@httpd] sticky_session doesn't work

[Rainer Jung <ra...@kippdata.de>]

On 01.09.2010 08:24, 王科选 wrote:
>   Hi, I'm using Apache/2.2.16 (Win32) mod_jk/1.2.30 , and had set the
> sticky_session=1, but it doesn't work!
>
> will someone help me please, thanks!
>
> Here is the workers.properties:
>
> worker.list = balancer,status
>
> worker.tomcat1.port=8010
>
> worker.tomcat1.host=10.3.1.17
> worker.tomcat1.type=ajp13
> worker.tomcat1.lbfactor = 1
>
> worker.tomcat2.port=8010
> worker.tomcat2.host=10.3.1.18
> worker.tomcat2.type=ajp13
> worker.tomcat2.lbfactor = 1
>
> worker.balancer.type=lb
> worker.balancer.balance_workers=tomcat1,tomcat2
> worker.balancer.sticky_session=1
>
> worker.status.type=status
>
> And I'm also wondering how apache descides which tomcat a session
> belongs to ?

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I'll give you a short answer, but if you need to proceed discussion, 
please repost to the other list.

sticky_session=1 is the default setting. In order to make sticky session 
work, you need to ingredients.

1) You need to set the attribute jvmRoute in server.xml of Tomcat to an 
individual value for each Tomcat instance. An example for setting 
jvmRoute is contained as a comment in the default server.xml file. The 
file is contained in the conf directory of Tomcat.

2) The member worker of the load balancer worker need to have the same 
names as the jvmRoute of the Tomcat to which they connect. In your above 
configuration those names are "tomcat1" and "tomcat2", so either you 
choose "tomcat1" and "tomcat2" as the jvmRoute values, or you change the 
names of the workers above to the jvmRoute values you have alredy chosen.

3) Tomcat appends its own jvmRoute at the end of the session id, 
separated with a dot. The session id is send to the client either via 
the JSESSIONID cookie, or via URL encoding ("...;jsessionid=...").

4) mod_jk knows about that, extracts the value of the JSESSIONID cookie 
presented by the browser respectively extracts the id encoded in the 
URL, looks for the separating dot and extracts the jvmRoute from the id. 
The load balancing worker then searches for a member worker with the 
same name and uses that one for stickyness.

Regards,

Rainer

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