I am having an issue trying to setup sticky sessions for following configuration:

1 httpd front end
2 backend jboss instances

What I am noticing is when running in a cluster, the JSESSIONID contains quotes like:

Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID="DE0F7EEA2A5E90497D729DB27DDB4B25.192.168.7.11:8009:jboss.web"; Version=1; Path=/f00

Whilst not in a cluster:

Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=355F9E370912DC10187A15E8B02260CD; Path=/foo

Now when I am looking in the httpd logging I see:

mod_proxy_cluster.c(1681): cluster: Found value "54F0CFC4961C9ED14A64335B40645392.192.168.7.11:8009:jboss.web" for stickysession JSESSIONID

In my opinion the quotes around the jsessionid is causing mod_proxy_cluster to fail in finding the jboss node to which to "stick" to.
I recompiled mod_proxy_cluster with "HAVE_CLUSTER_EX_DEBUG" set for more debugging info and this confirmed my suspicion:

mod_proxy_cluster.c(1739): find_nodedomain: finding node for 192.168.7.11:8009:jboss.web": mycluster
mod_proxy_cluster.c(1752): find_nodedomain: finding domain for 192.168.7.11:8009:jboss.web": mycluster

Looking in the code this shows that it was unable to find the node, due to the ending quote in the route.

As for my JBoss Setup:

• Uncommented ModClusterListener in jbossweb.sar/META-INF/jboss-beans.xml
• mod_cluster.sar/META-INF/mod_cluster-jboss-beans.xml

• changed ModClusterService to HAModClusterService
• changed ${jboss.mod_cluster.advertise.enabled:false} to true

As for my httpd setup:

LoadModule proxy_module /opt/jboss/httpd/lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_ajp_module /opt/jboss/httpd/lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so
LoadModule slotmem_module /opt/jboss/httpd/lib/httpd/modules/mod_slotmem.so
LoadModule manager_module /opt/jboss/httpd/lib/httpd/modules/mod_manager.so
LoadModule proxy_cluster_module /opt/jboss/httpd/lib/httpd/modules/mod_proxy_cluster.so
LoadModule advertise_module /opt/jboss/httpd/lib/httpd/modules/mod_advertise.so

LogLevel debug

CreateBalancers 0

<VirtualHost *:80>

<Location /mod_cluster-manager>
SetHandler mod_cluster-manager

Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from all

1. Allow from 192.168.7.
   </Location>

<Directory />
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from all
</Directory>

ProxyPass /foo balancer://mycluster/foo stickysession=JSESSIONID scolonpathdelim=On nofailover=On

KeepAliveTimeout 60
MaxKeepAliveRequests 0
ManagerBalancerName mycluster
AdvertiseFrequency 5

</VirtualHost>

Listen sebeco-dev-11:443
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName sebeco-dev-11:443
SSLEngine on
SSLProxyEngine on
SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL
SSLCertificateFile "/opt/jboss/httpd/httpd/server.crt"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "/opt/jboss/httpd/httpd/server.key"
SSLCertificateChainFile "/opt/jboss/httpd/httpd/server-ca.crt"
<FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
</FilesMatch>

<Location />
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Location>

ProxyPass /foo balancer://mycluster/foo stickysession=JSESSIONID scolonpathdelim=On nofailover=On
</VirtualHost>

As my setup is not really complex at this point my gut says I am doing something wrong in the setup, but digging in the code shows the opposite.
Any thougts?

Best regards,
Wim.