[mod_cluster-dev] clustered mod_cluster?

[jean-frederic clere]

On 10/21/2009 11:39 AM, Bela Ban wrote:
> This doesn't work currently, as the apache mod-cluster instances don't
> exchange information about their states, e.g. which sticky session is
> routed to which worker.
>
> No wait, I guess I'm wrong: they don't need to !
>
> Say we have Apaches A1 and A2, and workers W1, W2 and W3.
>
> If a client request hits A2 and A2 creates a new session on W3, then the
> session id is going to be SESSION.W3. When the same client now hits A1,
> A1 should actually also route the request to W3 ! This of course assumes
> that all workers have registered with all Apache daemons.
>
> So IMO we don't even need to exchange routing information between the
> Apache daemons... can someone confirm this ?

Yep. It will work that way.

Cheers

Jean-Frederic