Hello, I've an interesting situation with our application clusters. I am running multiple applications for one of our websites. We don't share sessions between the different servers; we use sticky sessions instead. Session replication is difficult because of the large size of our users' sessions.
We use applications A & B. I would like application A to run on servers 1 and 2 and application B to run on servers 3 and 4. The user initially requests application A and receives a sticky session for server 1. Later, the user requests application B. Since the sticky session was set, server 1 is accessed, but application B is not found. If sticky_session_force is set, then another server is tried; however, the sticky session will still be set to server 1 and the application B may not use the same server. I've thought of 3 possible ways to solve this problem with a preference to the one I don't know how to do yet. The first (my preference) is to be able to use multiple sticky sessions, one for each application. This might involve multiple copies of modjk loaded by tomcat with multiple workers.properties files, or something like that. I would have no idea of how to do this. Does anyone know how to do this? The second way of solving this problem is to use multiple copies of Tomcat bound to different IP addresses with different configuration files. This solution would be seen as subdomains to the user. The third way of solving this problem is to use multiple copies of Tomcat bound to different ports (same IP address) with different configuration files. This solution would have the same domain, but different port numbers. I'm pretty sure that the second and third solutions would work, but I'm not sure about the first solution. I've searched extensively and haven't found anyone with the same problem. Has anyone on this list been in this situation or know the best way to solve this problem? Thanks in advance, Jason Wright -- Jason Wright TCN Systems Administrator jason.wri...@tcnbroadcasting.com Office (866) 745-1901 x123 Cell (801) 687-3260
