[LON-CAPA-admin] Optimum Load Balancing

[H. K. Ng]

Hi,

Loncapa lets you configure which server the students can login. As dc,
select domain configurations then load balancer. The instructions on screen
tells you how to redirect the login from one of your access servers.

-hk

On Monday, March 2, 2015, Abdel Messeh, Maged <mmesseh at illinois.edu> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have recently successfully deployed a lon-balancer in our test
> environment which works great, however in order to completely benefit from
> it, I am looking for a way to redirect users to the balancer when they try
> to go directly to an access node.  In other words I do not want users to be
> able to go to a specific access node and potentially overload it.
>
> I tried to use apache redirects (mod_rewrite) to accomplish this but I
> ended up creating a loop in the folloing fashion:
> User goes to accesstest1 --> apache redirect to lon-balance -->
> lon-balance redirect to accestest2 --> apache redirect to lon-balance
>
> I am not sure if there is a better way for doing this?  I am also open for
> using external layer of redirects via nginx for exmaple.
>
> A more ambitious solution would be to completely hide which access node
> the user is on, and hence they cannot go directly to any access node and
> then see if lon-balancer can redirect users for each request rather than on
> initial logins only.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any thoughts on any of the above ideas.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Maged
>
>
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