Hi,

I'm trying to do this. The main problem is HTTPS session IDs I guess. This
makes load-balancing a bit more complicated since you need to forward every
request to the same server that has the sessionID. This is doable with Linux
LVS, your firewall or with HW load-balancing kit.

Now, what ahppens on a failure?
- The server(s) that still exist can take over the ip address of the failing
server
- The LoadBalancing system detects it and doesn't use the machine any more.

On the SSL side, since the server that fails over doesn't have the SSL
session, the browser connecting to it fails to communicate.

I'm not sure if it is safe to use the same cert for every machine, or that
it is a requirement to have the same cert on every machine.

Verisign requires you to ask for a different certificate for every server
(with a different OU) in a cluster. (I think this is just a commercial
reason, not a technical reason, but I'm not sure)

It is possible to sync the session cache over different hosts with things
like Splash <http://anoncvs.aldigital.co.uk/splash/> but I haven't found an
implementation with mod_ssl (only Apache-SSL)

I would be gratefull if someone has a clean solution or if there is someone
with experience on trying to accomplish this.


On 24-01-2002 23:34, "Yu, Ming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Does anyone have information about how to build redundant apache web site
> with SSL?
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> - Ming Yu
> 
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