On Feb 7, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Chris Hartjes wrote:
> > On 2/7/07, codecowboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> My company Lifeagora has launched... Finally!!! (applause) We are >> in the process of setting up a scalable architecture which would of >> course allow us to use a load balancer to divi up requests between >> several apache servers. This not my cup of tea, so this may come off >> as a newbie question. Will I need to change Cake's Session Component >> so that is works when multiple servers are creating sessions at the >> same time? Or, is this something that I will fix inside of apache? >> > > Having been through this on a non-CakePHP app, I offer the > following advice: > > 1) you will need a custom session handler so that requests on multiple > servers will have unique ID's if your load balancer moves someone from > one server to another Cake's database sessions is a custom handler. By pointing all your applications to look at a single database table for session info, you remove the problems created by clustering. > 2) you will likely have to change Cake's session component in some way > to get it to use a custom session handler instead of the stock one. Not if you use database sessions, or configure your PHP session files to reside on a share that can be accessed by all the nodes in the cluster. -- John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
