SCGI cluster configuration example for Apache

Rails
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Hi all !

I have SCGI setup and working correctly on a new host. I configured a
cluster using:
scgi_cluster config -e production -p 20000 -c 2

Now, I want to tell mod_scgi that I have two children. How do I do
that ? I can’t seem to find anything on the SRR site, nor on the
mailing list.

Thanks for any tips !

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You know, I could have swore I did this to test the cluster, but now
that
I look at my setup I think it actually wasn’t working with a cluster.
I’m
actually quite stumped how you’d do this. In lighttpd you just say
there’s 3 servers and that’s it. It uses them. In Apache I’m thinking
you’ll have to scgimount the three backends to different URLs, and then
somehow use mod_rewrite to balance between them.

That seriously can’t be right. There’s got to be a simpler way. Anyone
have other thoughts?

Zed

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2005/12/8, [email protected] [email protected]:

You know, I could have swore I did this to test the cluster, but now that
I look at my setup I think it actually wasn’t working with a cluster. I’m
actually quite stumped how you’d do this. In lighttpd you just say
there’s 3 servers and that’s it. It uses them. In Apache I’m thinking
you’ll have to scgimount the three backends to different URLs, and then
somehow use mod_rewrite to balance between them.

One could use random RewriteMap for “balancing”. :slight_smile:
In Apache config:

SCGIMount /scgi0/ 127.0.0.1:9999
SCGIMount /scgi1/ 127.0.0.1:10000
SCGIMount /scgi2/ 127.0.0.1:10001

RewriteMap scginums rnd:/web/scgi-nums.txt

File /web/scgi-nums.txt:

num 0|1|2

And change rewrite rule to “balance” between them:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /scgi${scginums:num}/$1 [QSA,L]

Setup Rails routing:
config/routes.rb:

map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’
map.connect ‘scgi0/:controller/:action/:id’
map.connect ‘scgi1/:controller/:action/:id’
map.connect ‘scgi2/:controller/:action/:id’

Now, it will work as a cluster, but it’s definitely very poor
“solution”. :slight_smile: