Also, the over-arching thing to consider here is that you just
launched. There's nothing wrong with thinking ahead, but unless your
app is The Second Coming of Google, thinking about scaling on that
level right now is, for lack of a better term, mental masturbation.
On Feb 7, 12:41 pm, "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Use database sessions, that's what all the cool kids are doing.
>
> // app/config/core.php:
> define('CAKE_SESSION_SAVE', 'database');
>
> On Feb 7, 12:35 pm, "John David Anderson (_psychic_)"
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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
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