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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Carlos del Castillo <cc...@qoslabs.com> on 2011/03/24 17:14:50 UTC

[users@httpd] reverse proxy based on user agent

Hello everyone, I have a web server that is load balancing two tomcat servers using the proxy module, all is working well but now I need to add a third one, but we need to send very specific user_agents to that third server. The URLs must be the same. 

Right now my configuration looks like this:


ProxyRequests Off
ProxyVia Off
ProxyPreserveHost On

<Proxy *>
	Order deny,allow
	Allow from all
</Proxy>

<Proxy balancer://cluster>
	BalancerMember ajp://server1:8009 route=as1 loadfactor=50
	BalancerMember ajp://server2:8009 route=as2 loadfactor=50
</Proxy>


ProxyPass / balancer://cluster/ stickysession=JSESSIONID
ProxyPassReverse / balancer://cluster/

I've bee looking to the mod_rewirte module, but I'm not sure how I could add the third server and only send the specific user agents to that server.

Any suggestions or pointers are welcome.

Thanks a lot!


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Re: [users@httpd] reverse proxy based on user agent

Posted by Jeroen Geilman <je...@adaptr.nl>.
On 03/24/2011 05:14 PM, Carlos del Castillo wrote:
> Hello everyone, I have a web server that is load balancing two tomcat servers using the proxy module, all is working well but now I need to add a third one, but we need to send very specific user_agents to that third server. The URLs must be the same.
>
> Right now my configuration looks like this:
>
>
> ProxyRequests Off
> ProxyVia Off
> ProxyPreserveHost On
>
> <Proxy *>
> 	Order deny,allow
> 	Allow from all
> </Proxy>
>
> <Proxy balancer://cluster>
> 	BalancerMember ajp://server1:8009 route=as1 loadfactor=50
> 	BalancerMember ajp://server2:8009 route=as2 loadfactor=50
> </Proxy>
>
>
> ProxyPass / balancer://cluster/ stickysession=JSESSIONID
> ProxyPassReverse / balancer://cluster/
>
> I've bee looking to the mod_rewirte module, but I'm not sure how I could add the third server and only send the specific user agents to that server.
>    

This can be done fairly easily using a rewritecond:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} /some/matching/regex/
RewriteRule / ajp://server3:8009/ [P]

HOWEVER, this cannot be done inside the context of your balancer - 
unless you do all three this way.
So you lose the sessionID.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html

-- 
J.


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