I don't think this addresses session affinity (I think that's the correct term). It just does a roundrobin from a central webserver to multiple appservers.
If you don't want to mess with SQL, just store all the sessions in an NFS directory, so both appservers can get at it. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Tavis Rudd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 2:48 PM > To: Ian Bicking; Jeff Johnson > Cc: 'Webware Discuss' > Subject: Re: [Webware-discuss] clustered webservers? > > > On Monday 18 February 2002 10:26, Ian Bicking wrote: > > This was discussed on the mailing list a while back -- "load > > balancing" or something was the subject. > > > > With your current setup, you'll do better to have a third server > > (or dual use for one of your current servers), and have it redirect > > people round-robin-style to www1.whatever, www2.whatever, etc. > > Then users will always go back to the same computer for their > > session. This is what you want, but round-robin DNS won't ensure > > they always go back to the same server. > > > > I don't know if mod_rewrite has a randomizing thing in it -- I'd be > > surprised if it didn't -- so you could probably implement this as a > > single rewrite rule. > > > > A fairly simple extension to the adapters has been suggested, where > > an adapter would do the load balancing for you. But that's not > > implemented. > > Didn't Terrel code the basics of that? There's something about it on > his website: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~tshumway/webware/mod_webkit/ > > _______________________________________________ > Webware-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your cooperation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
