Hi --
I'm trying to set up a pair of tomcat servers behind apache using
mod_proxy_balancer. I'm using Apache 2.4.3 that I built a couple of days
ago on Solaris.
I see in the 2.4 docs that balancer settings can now be persistent after
restarts. I assume that this refers to changes to settings made via the
balancer-manager UI, but I can't seem to get it to work.
Here's my config:
<Proxy balancer://testcluster growth=5>
BalancerMember http://localhost:8861 timeout=5 keepalive=on
BalancerMember http://localhost:8871 timeout=5 keepalive=on
</Proxy>
ProxyPass /test balancer://testcluster
ProxyPassReverse /test balancer://testcluster
<Location /balancer-manager>
SetHandler balancer-manager
</Location>
Load-balancing works as expected, but if I edit one of the two nodes via
balancer-manager to set its status to 'disabled', the status returns to Ok
after I restart apache.
Similarly, if I add a new worker to the cluster via balancer-manager, it's
gone after a restart. In both of these cases, I expected the settings to
be as I left them before the restart.
Am I misunderstanding how the settings persistence is supposed to work, or
is there something else I need to do in order to get the settings to be
saved?
Additional question:
I have the timeout set to 5 seconds; if the back-end service takes longer
than 5 seconds to finish, the proxy does abandon the request as expected,
and I get an error in the browser. Is there any way to have the proxy,
when the back-end times out, retry the request against another one of the
nodes?
Failing that, is there a way to have the occurrence of a timeout put the
node into the Err state?
Let me know if there are any other details that would be helpful.
Thanks!
--Colin
