failover / fault-tolerant configurations

[Pavel Georgiev]

The thing is I run open source software that I don't want to modify myself 
(postfixadmin, SquirrelMail), so I`m looking for a solution at the 
load-balancer level. I know I can do this with Pound, but I already have 
nginx running and servering few sites (and I`m quite happy with it), so I 
don't want another load balancer as well. 

Can you give some examples of implementing php sessions in mysql, should I 
decide to go that way?


On Tuesday 27 May 2008 22:07:19 mike wrote:
> same here
>
> just a simple drop-in replacement for php sessions that uses 5
> functions. nothing special. could be setup to be master/master or
> anything. it's very simple in php to override normal session
> management ;)
>
> On 5/27/08, Renaud Allard <renaud at llorien.org> wrote:
> > Pavel Georgiev wrote:
> > > I`m using nginx as a load balances for 2 backend servers that run a php
> >
> > application. I need session awareness so I`ve enabled ip_hash for the
> > upstream, but in case one node fails, all requests that should go to that
> > node get the error_page.
> >
> > > Is there a way to have session awareness without loosing the redundancy
> >
> > that 2 backend servers provide?
> >
> >
> >
> > What I use is session_mysql over a master-master mysql server, this
> > should allow you to get the session hash between both servers.