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50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf<div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_proxy_balancer</h1>
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50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf<table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td><code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code> extension for load balancing </td></tr>
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50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf<h3>Summary</h3>
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf
1538dfa9300693372892a358260e1dcdbf1138eapoirier <p>This module <em>requires</em> the service of <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code>. It provides load balancing support for
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf <code>HTTP</code>, <code>FTP</code> and <code>AJP13</code> protocols
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf </p>
f0fa55ff14fa0bf8fd72d989f6625de6dc3260c8igalic
f0fa55ff14fa0bf8fd72d989f6625de6dc3260c8igalic <p>Load balancing scheduler algorithm is provided by not this
f0fa55ff14fa0bf8fd72d989f6625de6dc3260c8igalic module but other modules such as:
bed3c2e56e8f3328e780200466b9d009093db468sf <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_lbmethod_byrequests.html">mod_lbmethod_byrequests</a></code>,
f0fa55ff14fa0bf8fd72d989f6625de6dc3260c8igalic <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_lbmethod_bytraffic.html">mod_lbmethod_bytraffic</a></code>,
f0fa55ff14fa0bf8fd72d989f6625de6dc3260c8igalic <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_lbmethod_bybusyness.html">mod_lbmethod_bybusyness</a></code> and
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_lbmethod_heartbeat.html">mod_lbmethod_heartbeat</a></code>.
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf </p>
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf <p>Thus, in order to get the ability of load balancing,
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code>, <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_proxy_balancer.html">mod_proxy_balancer</a></code>
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf and at least one of load balancing scheduler algorithm modules have
30471a4650391f57975f60bbb6e4a90be7b284bfhumbedooh to be present in the server.</p>
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf <div class="warning"><h3>Warning</h3>
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf <p>Do not enable proxying until you have <a href="mod_proxy.html#access">secured your server</a>. Open proxy
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf servers are dangerous both to your network and to the Internet at
bed3c2e56e8f3328e780200466b9d009093db468sf large.</p>
9a58dc6a2b26ec128b1270cf48810e705f1a90dbsf </div>
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50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf<div id="quickview"><h3>Topics</h3>
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf<ul id="topics">
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#scheduler">Load balancer scheduler algorithm</a></li>
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#stickyness">Load balancer stickyness</a></li>
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#example">Examples of a balancer configuration</a></li>
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#environment">Exported Environment Variables</a></li>
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#balancer_manager">Enabling Balancer Manager Support</a></li>
bed3c2e56e8f3328e780200466b9d009093db468sf<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#stickyness_implementation">Details on load balancer stickyness</a></li>
bed3c2e56e8f3328e780200466b9d009093db468sf<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#stickyness_troubleshooting">Troubleshooting load balancer stickyness</a></li>
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf</ul><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3>
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf<p>This module provides no
f0fa55ff14fa0bf8fd72d989f6625de6dc3260c8igalic directives.</p>
f0fa55ff14fa0bf8fd72d989f6625de6dc3260c8igalic<h3>See also</h3>
f0fa55ff14fa0bf8fd72d989f6625de6dc3260c8igalic<ul class="seealso">
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf<li><code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code></li>
f0fa55ff14fa0bf8fd72d989f6625de6dc3260c8igalic</ul><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div>
f0fa55ff14fa0bf8fd72d989f6625de6dc3260c8igalic<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div>
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf<div class="section">
bed3c2e56e8f3328e780200466b9d009093db468sf<h2><a name="scheduler" id="scheduler">Load balancer scheduler algorithm</a></h2>
bed3c2e56e8f3328e780200466b9d009093db468sf
bed3c2e56e8f3328e780200466b9d009093db468sf <p>At present, there are 3 load balancer scheduler algorithms available
bed3c2e56e8f3328e780200466b9d009093db468sf for use: Request Counting, Weighted Traffic Counting and Pending Request
bed3c2e56e8f3328e780200466b9d009093db468sf Counting. These are controlled via the <code>lbmethod</code> value of
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf the Balancer definition. See the <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass">ProxyPass</a></code>
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf directive for more information, especially regarding how to
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf configure the Balancer and BalancerMembers.</p>
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50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf<div class="section">
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf<h2><a name="stickyness" id="stickyness">Load balancer stickyness</a></h2>
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sf
053bfa8a288528fafab2b7a032c15116bb5de711nd <p>The balancer supports stickyness. When a request is proxied
053bfa8a288528fafab2b7a032c15116bb5de711nd to some back-end, then all following requests from the same user
727872d18412fc021f03969b8641810d8896820bhumbedooh should be proxied to the same back-end. Many load balancers implement
0d0ba3a410038e179b695446bb149cce6264e0abnd this feature via a table that maps client IP addresses to back-ends.
727872d18412fc021f03969b8641810d8896820bhumbedooh This approach is transparent to clients and back-ends, but suffers
cc7e1025de9ac63bd4db6fe7f71c158b2cf09fe4humbedooh from some problems: unequal load distribution if clients are themselves
0d0ba3a410038e179b695446bb149cce6264e0abnd hidden behind proxies, stickyness errors when a client uses a dynamic
cc7e1025de9ac63bd4db6fe7f71c158b2cf09fe4humbedooh IP address that changes during a session and loss of stickyness, if the
727872d18412fc021f03969b8641810d8896820bhumbedooh mapping table overflows.</p>
0d0ba3a410038e179b695446bb149cce6264e0abnd <p>The module <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_proxy_balancer.html">mod_proxy_balancer</a></code> implements stickyness
0d0ba3a410038e179b695446bb149cce6264e0abnd on top of two alternative means: cookies and URL encoding. Providing the
0d0ba3a410038e179b695446bb149cce6264e0abnd cookie can be either done by the back-end or by the Apache web server
ac082aefa89416cbdc9a1836eaf3bed9698201c8humbedooh itself. The URL encoding is usually done on the back-end.</p>
0d0ba3a410038e179b695446bb149cce6264e0abnd</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div>
0d0ba3a410038e179b695446bb149cce6264e0abnd<div class="section">
0d0ba3a410038e179b695446bb149cce6264e0abnd<h2><a name="example" id="example">Examples of a balancer configuration</a></h2>
727872d18412fc021f03969b8641810d8896820bhumbedooh
0d0ba3a410038e179b695446bb149cce6264e0abnd <p>Before we dive into the technical details, here's an example of
0d0ba3a410038e179b695446bb149cce6264e0abnd how you might use <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_proxy_balancer.html">mod_proxy_balancer</a></code> to provide
30471a4650391f57975f60bbb6e4a90be7b284bfhumbedooh load balancing between two back-end servers:
1a1356f375e36db7bee379ea0684ab389579f798rbowen </p>
af33a4994ae2ff15bc67d19ff1a7feb906745bf8rbowen
0d0ba3a410038e179b695446bb149cce6264e0abnd <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Proxy balancer://mycluster&gt;
7fec19672a491661b2fe4b29f685bc7f4efa64d4nd BalancerMember http://192.168.1.50:80
7fec19672a491661b2fe4b29f685bc7f4efa64d4nd BalancerMember http://192.168.1.51:80
7fec19672a491661b2fe4b29f685bc7f4efa64d4nd&lt;/Proxy&gt;
50c04f297d76a57ead2fa6b73845f7563b1fc788sfProxyPass /test balancer://mycluster
ProxyPassReverse /test balancer://mycluster</pre>
<p>Another example of how to provide load balancing with stickyness
using <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_headers.html">mod_headers</a></code>, even if the back-end server does
not set a suitable session cookie:
</p>
<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">Header add Set-Cookie "ROUTEID=.%{BALANCER_WORKER_ROUTE}e; path=/" env=BALANCER_ROUTE_CHANGED
&lt;Proxy balancer://mycluster&gt;
BalancerMember http://192.168.1.50:80 route=1
BalancerMember http://192.168.1.51:80 route=2
ProxySet stickysession=ROUTEID
&lt;/Proxy&gt;
ProxyPass /test balancer://mycluster
ProxyPassReverse /test balancer://mycluster</pre>
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<div class="section">
<h2><a name="environment" id="environment">Exported Environment Variables</a></h2>
<p>At present there are 6 environment variables exported:</p>
<dl>
<dt><var><a name="balancer_session_sticky" id="balancer_session_sticky">BALANCER_SESSION_STICKY</a></var></dt>
<dd>
<p>This is assigned the <var>stickysession</var> value used for the current
request. It is the name of the cookie or request parameter used for sticky sessions</p>
</dd>
<dt><var><a name="balancer_session_route" id="balancer_session_route">BALANCER_SESSION_ROUTE</a></var></dt>
<dd>
<p>This is assigned the <var>route</var> parsed from the current
request.</p>
</dd>
<dt><var><a name="balancer_name" id="balancer_name">BALANCER_NAME</a></var></dt>
<dd>
<p>This is assigned the name of the balancer used for the current
request. The value is something like <code>balancer://foo</code>.</p>
</dd>
<dt><var><a name="balancer_worker_name" id="balancer_worker_name">BALANCER_WORKER_NAME</a></var></dt>
<dd>
<p>This is assigned the name of the worker used for the current request.
The value is something like <code>http://hostA:1234</code>.</p>
</dd>
<dt><var><a name="balancer_worker_route" id="balancer_worker_route">BALANCER_WORKER_ROUTE</a></var></dt>
<dd>
<p>This is assigned the <var>route</var> of the worker that will be
used for the current request.</p>
</dd>
<dt><var><a name="balancer_route_changed" id="balancer_route_changed">BALANCER_ROUTE_CHANGED</a></var></dt>
<dd>
<p>This is set to 1 if the session route does not match the
worker route (BALANCER_SESSION_ROUTE != BALANCER_WORKER_ROUTE) or the
session does not yet have an established route. This can be used to
determine when/if the client needs to be sent an updated route
when sticky sessions are used.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
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<div class="section">
<h2><a name="balancer_manager" id="balancer_manager">Enabling Balancer Manager Support</a></h2>
<p>This module <em>requires</em> the service of
<code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_status.html">mod_status</a></code>.
Balancer manager enables dynamic update of balancer
members. You can use balancer manager to change the balance
factor of a particular member, or put it in the off line
mode.
</p>
<p>Thus, in order to get the ability of load balancer management,
<code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_status.html">mod_status</a></code> and <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_proxy_balancer.html">mod_proxy_balancer</a></code>
have to be present in the server.</p>
<p>To enable load balancer management for browsers from the example.com
domain add this code to your <code>httpd.conf</code>
configuration file</p>
<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Location /balancer-manager&gt;
SetHandler balancer-manager
Require host example.com
&lt;/Location&gt;</pre>
<p>You can now access load balancer manager by using a Web browser
to access the page
<code>http://your.server.name/balancer-manager</code>. Please note
that only Balancers defined outside of <code>&lt;Location ...&gt;</code>
containers can be dynamically controlled by the Manager.</p>
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<div class="section">
<h2><a name="stickyness_implementation" id="stickyness_implementation">Details on load balancer stickyness</a></h2>
<p>When using cookie based stickyness, you need to configure the
name of the cookie that contains the information about which back-end
to use. This is done via the <var>stickysession</var> attribute added
to either <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass">ProxyPass</a></code> or
<code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxyset">ProxySet</a></code>. The name of
the cookie is case-sensitive. The balancer extracts the value of the
cookie and looks for a member worker with <var>route</var> equal
to that value. The <var>route</var> must also be set in either
<code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass">ProxyPass</a></code> or
<code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxyset">ProxySet</a></code>. The cookie can either
be set by the back-end, or as shown in the above
<a href="#example">example</a> by the Apache web server itself.</p>
<p>Some back-ends use a slightly different form of stickyness cookie,
for instance Apache Tomcat. Tomcat adds the name of the Tomcat instance
to the end of its session id cookie, separated with a dot (<code>.</code>)
from the session id. Thus if the Apache web server finds a dot in the value
of the stickyness cookie, it only uses the part behind the dot to search
for the route. In order to let Tomcat know about its instance name, you
need to set the attribute <code>jvmRoute</code> inside the Tomcat
configuration file <code>conf/server.xml</code> to the value of the
<var>route</var> of the worker that connects to the respective Tomcat.
The name of the session cookie used by Tomcat (and more generally by Java
web applications based on servlets) is <code>JSESSIONID</code>
(upper case) but can be configured to something else.</p>
<p>The second way of implementing stickyness is URL encoding.
The web server searches for a query parameter in the URL of the request.
The name of the parameter is specified again using <var>stickysession</var>.
The value of the parameter is used to lookup a member worker with <var>route</var>
equal to that value. Since it is not easy to extract and manipulate all
URL links contained in responses, generally the work of adding the parameters
to each link is done by the back-end generating the content.
In some cases it might be feasible doing
this via the web server using <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_substitute.html">mod_substitute</a></code> or
<code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_sed.html">mod_sed</a></code>. This can have negative impact on performance though.</p>
<p>The Java standards implement URL encoding slightly different. They use
a path info appended to the URL using a semicolon (<code>;</code>)
as the separator and add the session id behind. As in the cookie case,
Apache Tomcat can include the configured <code>jvmRoute</code> in this path
info. To let Apache find this sort of path info, you neet to set
<code>scolonpathdelim</code> to <code>On</code> in
<code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass">ProxyPass</a></code> or
<code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxyset">ProxySet</a></code>.</p>
<p>Finally you can support cookies and URL encoding at the same time, by
configuring the name of the cookie and the name of the URL parameter
separated by a vertical bar (<code>|</code>) as in the following example:</p>
<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">ProxyPass /test balancer://mycluster stickysession=JSESSIONID|jsessionid scolonpathdelim=On
&lt;Proxy balancer://mycluster&gt;
BalancerMember http://192.168.1.50:80 route=node1
BalancerMember http://192.168.1.51:80 route=node2
&lt;/Proxy&gt;</pre>
<p>If the cookie and the request parameter both provide routing information
for the same request, the information from the request parameter is used.</p>
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<div class="section">
<h2><a name="stickyness_troubleshooting" id="stickyness_troubleshooting">Troubleshooting load balancer stickyness</a></h2>
<p>If you experience stickyness errors, e.g. users lose their
application sessions and need to login again, you first want to
check whether this is because the back-ends are sometimes unavailable
or whether your configuration is wrong. To find out about possible
stability problems with the back-ends, check your Apache error log
for proxy error messages.</p>
<p>To verify your configuration, first check, whether the stickyness
is based on a cookie or on URL encoding. Next step would be logging
the appropriate data in the access log by using an enhanced
<code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_log_config.html#logformat">LogFormat</a></code>.
The following fields are useful:</p>
<dl>
<dt><code>%{MYCOOKIE}C</code></dt>
<dd>The value contained in the cookie with name <code>MYCOOKIE</code>.
The name should be the same given in the <var>stickysession</var>
attribute.</dd>
<dt><code>%{Set-Cookie}o</code></dt>
<dd>This logs any cookie set by the back-end. You can track,
whether the back-end sets the session cookie you expect, and
to which value it is set.</dd>
<dt><code>%{BALANCER_SESSION_STICKY}e</code></dt>
<dd>The name of the cookie or request parameter used
to lookup the routing information.</dd>
<dt><code>%{BALANCER_SESSION_ROUTE}e</code></dt>
<dd>The route information found in the request.</dd>
<dt><code>%{BALANCER_WORKER_ROUTE}e</code></dt>
<dd>The route of the worker chosen.</dd>
<dt><code>%{BALANCER_ROUTE_CHANGED}e</code></dt>
<dd>Set to <code>1</code> if the route in the request
is different from the route of the worker, i.e.
the request couldn't be handled sticky.</dd>
</dl>
<p>Common reasons for loss of session are session timeouts,
which are usually configurable on the back-end server.</p>
<p>The balancer also logs detailed information about handling
stickyness to the error log, if the log level is set to
<code>debug</code> or higher. This is an easy way to
troubleshoot stickyness problems, but the log volume might
be to high for production servers under high load.</p>
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