Hello, I have an application that runs with JBoss EAP 6.4 in domain mode, and I'm trying to configure an Apache with module mod_cluster to do the load balancing, however I'm having some difficulty setting up the proxy. Below are the settings that I tried to use:

<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:modcluster:1.2">

     <mod-cluster-config advertise-socket="modcluster" proxy-list="192.168.8.91:6666" balancer="myCluster" sticky-session="true" sticky-session-force="false" connector="ajp">

          <dynamic-load-provider>

               <load-metric type="busyness"/>

          </dynamic-load-provider>

     </mod-cluster-config>

</subsystem>

<IfModule manager_module>

     Listen 6666

     ManagerBalancerName myCluster

     <VirtualHost *:6666>

          <Location />

               Require all granted

          </Location>

          KeepAliveTimeout 5

          MaxKeepAliveRequests 0

          AdvertiseFrequency 30

          EnableMCPMReceive on

          <Location /modcluster_manager>

               SetHandler mod_cluster-manager

               Order deny,allow

               Allow from 192.168.0.0/23

               Require all granted

          </Location>

     </VirtualHost>

     <VirtualHost *:80>

          ProxyPreserveHost On

          ProxyPass /server-status !

          ProxyPass / http://192.168.8.91:6666/app/

          ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.8.91:6666/app/

          ProxyPassReverseCookiePath / /

          <Location /server-status>

               SetHandler server-status

               Order deny,allow

               Deny from all

               Allow from 192.168.0.0/23

          </Location>

     </VirtualHost>

</IfModule>

With these settings I was able to get the desired result, but I noticed that with each request made by a client, the Apache server creates one more, I imagine that because of how the proxy was configured, which makes the application performance severely impaired. So I tried different setup:

<IfModule manager_module>

     Listen 6666

     ManagerBalancerName myCluster

     KeepAliveTimeout 5

     MaxKeepAliveRequests 0

     AdvertiseFrequency 30

     RewriteEngine on

     RewriteRule "^/$" "/app/" [R,L]

     <Location /server-status>

          SetHandler server-status

          Order deny,allow

          Deny from all

          Allow from 192.168.0.0/23

     </Location>

     <VirtualHost *:6666>

          EnableMCPMReceive on

          <Location />

               Require all granted

          </Location>

          <Location /modcluster_manager>

               SetHandler mod_cluster-manager

               Order deny,allow

               Allow from 192.168.0.0/23

               Require all granted

          </Location>

     </VirtualHost>

</IfModule>

Using this second configuration I noticed that the performance improves a lot and the requests are not duplicated, however I was not able to remove the "/app" from the url, because I believe it is only possible to do this using the proxy.

What I want to do is: Any request that Apache receives on port 80 it should redirect to the Jboss load balancer. What is the bestt, most efficient and most correct way to do this?