Daisy chaining servers using APache

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alex.barylski
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Daisy chaining servers using APache

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If I remember correctly, Apache has a module or the ability to daisy chain/round robin multiple machines togather for a distributed environment?

Which is it, how does it work?

As I understand you configure Apache as a proxy which delegates requests one at a time to another Apache server (mirrored) in a round robin fashion?

Can anyone elaborate on this for me?
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Re: Daisy chaining servers using APache

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I haven't seen this module yet.
Take a look at

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html
Load Balancing

or maybe

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_proxy.html
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Re: Daisy chaining servers using APache

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I'm pretty sure I read about mod_proxy which is where I got the idea from for load balancing...not sure how re-write would work though. :P
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Re: Daisy chaining servers using APache

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Are you thinking about LVS? Linux Virtual Server? It's a bit more generic than just HTTP.

I've used it with great success:

http://www.linux-vs.org/
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