Re: Looking for some ideas, not sure if LVS can help me out or not

[Ranga Nathan <kairanga@xxxxxxx>]

If you do Apache URL re-writing, will you not end up with two different 
sets of rewriting on two different servers?
I would use a perl script  to do the URL re-writing or load balancing 
rather than Apache directives.
Ranga Nathan
Randy Paries wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Currently i have a LVS-DR setup with one director and two real servers
>
> the two real servers are running apache2 web servers and tomcat
> application servers.
>
> the real server 2 mounts the real server 1 document root fle system via nfs.
>
> i have  an architectural problem that i am not sure if i can use LVS
> to help or not.
> I will try to be brief
> I have a directory structure that is
> /home/app/user1
> /home/app/user2
> /home/app/images and other shared directories
>
> Currently i use LVS to just load balance between apache web servers
> and as mentioned each real server has rw access to the files
>
> my problem is that i am upto over 4000 users/directories. I need to
> sub divide, but i can not change the users URLs
> ie www.mydomain.com/user1 and www.mydomain.com/user2
>
> I am not sure if LVS can help me here or i need to maybe look at
> apache url rewitting.
>
> Thanks
> Randy
>
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