Bug#560020: mod_proxy_balancer: order matters for configuration

[Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>]

Package: apache2.2-common
Version: 2.2.9-10+lenny6
Severity: normal

Hello,

I've just beat my head against this, and finally realized that the issue
is the order in which these directives occur.  In this order:

<Proxy balancer://as_cluster>
   BalancerMember http://imsthas07:8080 route=tomcat1
   BalancerMember http://imsthas08:8080 route=tomcat2
</Proxy>

ProxyPass /foo/ balancer://as_cluster/foo/ stickysession=JSESSIONID
ProxyPass /bar/ balancer://as_cluster/bar/ stickysession=JSESSIONID

The stickysession directive is ignored completely, while in this order:

ProxyPass /foo/ balancer://as_cluster/foo/ stickysession=JSESSIONID
ProxyPass /bar/ balancer://as_cluster/bar/ stickysession=JSESSIONID

<Proxy balancer://as_cluster>
   BalancerMember http://imsthas07:8080 route=tomcat1
   BalancerMember http://imsthas08:8080 route=tomcat2
</Proxy>

It isn't.  This isn't how most of the rest of apache configuration
directives work, so I'm assuming this is a bug.  If this is a feature,
can you update the documentation to reflect it?

Cheers,

-- Package-specific info:
List of enabled modules from 'apache2 -M':
  alias auth_basic authn_file authz_default authz_groupfile
  authz_host authz_user autoindex cgi dir env info mime negotiation
  php5 rewrite setenvif status userdir

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apache2 depends on:
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork      2.2.9-10+lenny6 Apache HTTP Server - traditional n

apache2 recommends no packages.

apache2 suggests no packages.

Versions of packages apache2.2-common depends on:
ii  apache2-utils       2.2.9-10+lenny6      utility programs for webservers
ii  libapr1             1.2.12-5+lenny1      The Apache Portable Runtime Librar
ii  libaprutil1         1.2.12+dfsg-8+lenny4 The Apache Portable Runtime Utilit
ii  libc6               2.7-18               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libmagic1           4.26-1               File type determination library us
ii  libssl0.9.8         0.9.8g-15+lenny5     SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base            3.2-20               Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mime-support        3.44-1               MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  net-tools           1.60-22              The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  perl                5.10.0-19lenny2      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  procps              1:3.2.7-11           /proc file system utilities
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12    compression library - runtime

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