I've been working with the proxy code (unfortunately what shipped with
1.3.20 so I'm not sure if I've over looked this or not). Has any
thought been put into failover/load balance support with the proxy
module?
For example, suppose you have several backends, some of which have very
heavy applications that run on them. Two of these backends are
dedicated to these applications. Is there any way to tell mod_proxy to
use both of these servers when it proxies, or to roll over to the other
server should the first be down?
---------
| Proxy |
---------
|
--------------------------------
| | |
------------ ------------ ------------
| JSP Serv | | JSP Serv | | PHP Serv |
------------ ------------ ------------
"A" "B" "C"
In this case I have two JSP servers and one PHP server (yes I realize
that all could be run on the same server, but this is just an example).
Because of performance issues the two JSP servers (A & B) have the same
content and are dedicated to running JSP applications. Is there anyway
for something along the lines of:
ProxyPass /some_jsp_proxied_content http://jspA/proxied_content
http://jspB/proxied_content
Yes, I know that the above does not work (at least with 1.3.20), but the
idea is to give mod_proxy a list of alternatives to try incase one is
down. Then after the list is exausted give the appropriate error.
Or would something like this be better performed by another module such
as mod_backhand? Thanks.
--
Chris
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