[consulting] Running Drupal behind Reverse Proxy Server

[Chris Johnson]

To be honest, I don't know for certain.  I know it is currently working
correctly, although I did not set up the Pound portion of the installation.
 I'll have to investigate to answer your question.

..chris

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Frank Nikola <fnikola at cognisync.com>wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
>
>
> Without any session clause in the Pound configuration file how is the
> reverse proxy maintaining sessions while load balancing?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frank
>
>
>
> *From:* consulting-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:
> consulting-bounces at drupal.org] *On Behalf Of *Chris Johnson
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 16, 2010 1:58 PM
> *To:* A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
> *Subject:* Re: [consulting] Running Drupal behind Reverse Proxy Server
>
>
>
> We run a similar configuration, Pound in front of 2 web servers, with
> multiple hostnames (foo.example.com, bar.example.com, woof.example.com).
>
>
>
> Using Drupal 6, the only configuration changes we have to support this are:
>
>
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> $conf = array(
>
>    'reverse_proxy' => TRUE,
>
>    'reverse_proxy_addresses' => array('10.4.1.18'),
>
>  );
>
>
>
> We do not use any Session clause in our Service specification in the Pound
> configuration.  It seems to work fine without it.  (I did not set it up
> myself.)  That is, there are only Backend clauses.
>
>
>
> For what it's worth.
>
> ..chris
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Frank Nikola <fnikola at cognisync.com>
> wrote:
>
> We are having issues with session persistence in Drupal when using the
> Pound reverse proxy server. Currently, we are losing our session when
> clicking on a link to add a comment to a node for subdomains only. This
> issue (losing our session) does not happen when on the main domain (
> www.example.com), but only when on subdomains (sub1.example.com and
> sub2.example.com).
>
>
>
> Our current environment has the Pound reverse proxy server in front of two
> Drupal web servers that are each connected to an NFS mount where the Drupal
> site code exists.
>
>
>
> We have made the following changes to the settings.php file as directed for
> reverse proxy:
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>
>
> #Use . first because we have multiple subdomains
>
> $cookie_domain = '.ourdomain.com';
>
>
>
> $conf['reverse_proxy'] = TRUE;
>
>
>
> $conf['reverse_proxy_addresses'] = array('999.999.999.99');
>
>
>
>
>
> And have added the Drupal cookie in the reverse proxy configuration file:
>
>
>
> Service
>
>     BackEnd
>
>         Address web.server.one.net
>
>         Port    80
>
>         Priority 5
>
>     End
>
>     BackEnd
>
>         Address web.server.two.net
>
>         Port    80
>
>         Priority 5
>
>     End
>
>     Session
>
>         Type    COOKIE
>
>         ID      "session_key"
>
>         TTL     540
>
>     End
>
> End
>
>
>
> Is there anything else that needs to be configured to maintain session
> persistence for subdomains?
>
>
>
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