I currently have CF7.02 multi-server running three instances using round-robin loadbalancing and session replication. I have set this up a number of different ways and I need to know what best practice is for this type of setup?
All three application servers are answering on a context root of /. I am using connector clustering to load balance requests coming in from my single instance of Apache. The first time I set this up I created an ear file using the packaging and deployment utility, then created my 1st instance and deployed it from the ear file (repeated for each additional instance). I then pointed the Apache docroot at the 1st instance's war file D:\JRun4\servers\App1\cfusion.ear\cfusion.war. Is this where I should have Apache docroot set? What is the point of deploying the application to the internal JRun web server and then serving it from Apache? This seems kind of redundant but I am probably missing some fundamental knowledge on the interaction bewteen CF and the webserver. The second setup I have tried is serving the application from a folder outside the JRun4 folder structure e.g. (D:\App1) with Apache docroot set here. I then setup connector clustering and deployed each instance from the Enterprise Manager but this time I did not specify an ear or war file to deploy from. In this setup the application works fine but session replication does not (I assume this is because CF needs my app to be deployed on the internal webserver in order for session replication to work??). With this setup I get the error that "the web application cfusion.ear#cfusion.war could not be found to accept sessions for replication". As well as a Error while parsing Post Data exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Short Read during the deploying enterprise application portion of the server startup. Is it ok to have Apache Docroot set to the application server webroot of the 1st instance? What are my options and what are generally accepted best practices for this type of setup? On a side note I have done quite a bit of research bpurcell.org, talking tree, My other Beans etc but have not found guidance for this particular issue. If this topic has been hammered to death as I suspect, links to more reading in lieu of an answer are also very much appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294200 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
