1 Reply Latest reply on May 23, 2004 6:00 AM by julien.dubois

    Sticky sessions not working with jk

    heathm

      I am unable to get sticky sessions working with jk and JBoss 3.2.4RC2.

      I'm running Apache 2.0.49 on SuSE 9.1. I have jk working fine with a single JBoss backend but sticky sessions are not working when I load balance between multiple jboss backends. I've got JBoss running "out of the box" with a simple .jsp with a counter that uses sessions. Even with sticky_session=1 set in my jk .properties file, it still rotates between all the app servers.

      My httpd.conf entry looks like:

      LoadModule jk_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_jk.so
      JKWorkersFile /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/test.properties
      JkLogFile /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.log
      JkLogLevel debug
      JkLogStampFormat "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y]"
      JkOptions +ForwardKeySize +ForwardURICompat -ForwardDirectories
      JkRequestLogFormat "%w %V %T"
      JkMount /* router

      My jk .properties file looks like:

      worker.list=router, sharkbait, jellyman, littleblue

      worker.sharkbait.type=ajp13
      worker.sharkbait.host=sharkbait
      worker.sharkbait.port=8009
      worker.sharkbait.lbfactor=1
      worker.sharkbait.cachesize=10
      worker.sharkbait.socket_timeout=300

      worker.jellyman.type=ajp13
      worker.jellyman.host=jellyman
      worker.jellyman.port=8009
      worker.jellyman.lbfactor=1
      worker.jellyman.cachesize=10
      worker.jellyman.socket_timeout=300

      worker.littleblue.type=ajp13
      worker.littleblue.host=littleblue
      worker.littleblue.port=8009
      worker.littleblue.lbfactor=1
      worker.littleblue.cachesize=10
      worker.littleblue.socket_timeout=300

      worker.router.type=lb
      worker.router.balanced_workers=sharkbait, jellyman, littleblue
      worker.router.sticky_session=1


      Any ideas on why the sessions aren't sticky?

      Thanks,

      Mike