Load Balancing between Tomcat servers config in httpd.conf

[kumasa19]

Hi Team,

We are currently using below configuring we are using in our web servers ( 2 servers) for the LB and to maintain stikysession. As per this configurations, the requests are always reaching to sandeep1 server and on failure of this node, the request is reaching to sandeep2. Failover is happening but not the actual LB. To achieve the LB, we did the same configuration in our other web server by reversing the BalancerMember.

ProxyPass /sandeep balancer://mycluster/
Header add Set-Cookie "ROUTEID=.%{BALANCER_WORKER_ROUTE}e; path=/" env=BALANCER_ROUTE_CHANGED
<Proxy balancer://mycluster>
BalancerMember

http://sandeep1.enterprisenet.org:8080

route=1
BalancerMember

http://sandeep2.enterprisenet.org:8080

route=2
ProxySet stickysession=ROUTEID
</Proxy>
ProxyPassReverse /sandeep balancer://sandeep

Now, we have a requirement to add a third server to this LB and need your help in the configurations. Adding 'BalancerMember

http://sandeep3.enterprisenet.org:8080

route=3' is going to handle the requests only up on above two servers failure.

Please suggest me on the configurations for the actual LB between three tomcat servers.

Thanks,
Sandeep Kumar S

 

[plunkett]

mod_jk offers a more elegant solution to this.

 

[kumasa19]

Thanks Plunkett for your reply.

Yes, i have used mod_jk and it worked as expected.

Thanks,
Sandeep Kumar S

 

[SamBones]

Another vote for mod_jk. Easy to set up and works great. Plus, the jkmanager page that comes with it gives great monitoring and control over what the load balancing is doing.