JK2 runtime reconfig and graceful shutdown config example?

[Chi Tong <aa...@aol.com>]

Hi,

I tried to use the JK2 graceful shutdown feature through runtime 
reconfig but my setup failed to work. Anyone has a working example?

My setup has Apache 2.0.47 and 2 instances of Tomcat 4.1.24 on Solaris 
8. JK2 connector was used to load balance between the 2 Tomcat servers 
through socket channel. This setup worked fine with load balancing and 
sticky session.

Then I tried to set graceful=1 and version=1 in one of the channel 
inside the worker2.properties file. By reloading the jkstatus page, the 
ver attribute on the page was incremented. However at this point, I'm 
not sure whether the runtime reconfiguration is effective or not because 
when I tried to send new request to the Apache 2 server, the new request 
was still sending to the Tomcat server where graceful=1 was set in that 
channel. Also there was no indication of graceful=1 and version=1 being 
picked up other than ver attribute was updated on the status page. The 
runtime reconfig and/or graceful shutdown seemed not working in my setup.

Anybody knows what else I can try or has experience setting up JK2 
runtime reconfig and graceful shutdown successfully?

Thanks,
ct