I am attempting to setup a system with Apache and Tomcat 3.2.3 to
load-balance between 2 instances of Tomcat on the same machine.
I have read and reread the worker.properties document, plus the
Apache-HowTo, as well as trawled through the archives here and on jGuru,
but still find myself somewhat mystified.
Here's my understanding from what I've read: can anyone confirm if I'm
right, and perhaps fill in the bits I may be missing.
1. I need to run 2 seperate instances of Tomcat, each with their own
server.xml file
In each server.xml I need to define connectors (presumably using the
newer and faster ajp13) whose ports are different from each other. I also
need separate ajp12 connectors, again on different ports, in order to
shutdown Tomcat tidily.
2. I need to define entires in the worker.properties file for each of these
instances. That much seems obvious.
But how? Do I define both instances as workers in the same
worker.properties file?
3. I also need to define the load-balancer worker. Is this yet another
instance of Tomcat that I need to set up, or can one instance double as
both the balancer and the worker?
4. Finally I need to configure Apache to connect to the load-balancer
instance, which will then share the work between the two instances.
Is this all correct?
Any help or pointers would be gratefully appreciated.
JDL
