Mailing List Archive

On Monday, May 14, 2001, at 09:42 AM, Greg Pepper wrote:
> Hey, does mod_backhand support HTTPS?
>
> Or is it just a function of compiling in MOD_SSL into Apache, or using
> a commercial product such as Covalent's raven?

Yup.

> Looking for an Apache load balancing solution with out having to shell
> out 20K for a Big IP, Local Director, etc.
> Could do round-robin DNS , but someone told me about mod_backhand.
>
> An answer to the HTTPS question, and another feedback regarding HTTP
> load balancing solutions would be greatly appreciated!

If you aren't going to have a HA (high availability) device in front,
you probably want to set up something like the "single point cluster"
described in the "mod_backhand: internal explained" ApacheCon course
notes. Look on page 10, section 6.1. The course notes are available
here:

http://www.backhand.org/ApacheCon2001/US/backhand_course_notes.pdf

The only change is that the front-end machine must have SSL enabled (via
Raven or mod_ssl or ApacheSSL). The requests that are proxied to
back-end machines will be done so over normal HTTP (not SSL). This is a
Good Thing (TM) because you definitely do not want encryption being
performed twice.

--
Theo Schlossnagle
1024D/82844984/95FD 30F1 489E 4613 F22E 491A 7E88 364C 8284 4984
2047R/33131B65/71 F7 95 64 49 76 5D BA 3D 90 B9 9F BE 27 24 E7