How to configure failover with an Apache httpd/mod_proxy_balancer and sticky sessions enabled?

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Issue

  • How do I configure failover with an Apache httpd/mod_proxy_balancer and sticky sessions enabled?

  • The following configuration shows "503 Service Unavailable" if one of the BalanceMember servers is down:

    <Proxy balancer://mycluster>
     BalancerMember http://node1:8080 route=node1
     BalancerMember http://node2:8080 route=node2
     BalancerMember http://node3:8080 route=node3
</Proxy>
ProxyPass /myapp/ balancer://mycluster/myapp/ stickysession=JSESSIONID nofailover=On

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Apache httpd / mod_proxy

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