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Chapter 6. Working Examples

6.1. Complete Working Example

Following are a set of example configuration files for a complete working example.
Load Balancer

A proxy server listening on localhost:

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LoadModule proxy_cluster_module modules/mod_proxy_cluster.so
LoadModule cluster_slotmem_module modules/mod_cluster_slotmem.so
LoadModule manager_module modules/mod_manager.so
LoadModule advertise_module modules/mod_advertise.so

MemManagerFile cache/mod_cluster

<IfModule manager_module>
  Listen 6666
  <VirtualHost *:6666>
    <Directory />
      Require ip 127.0.0.1
    </Directory>
    ServerAdvertise on
    EnableMCPMReceive
    <Location /mod_cluster_manager>
      SetHandler mod_cluster-manager
      Require ip 127.0.0.1
   </Location>
  </VirtualHost>
</IfModule>
Worker Configuration for Tomcat

Edit JWS_HOME/tomcat<VERSION>/conf/server.xml, and add the following listener element to configure the worker for Tomcat:

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<Listener className="org.jboss.modcluster.container.catalina.standalone.ModClusterListener" advertise="true"/>
Example iptables Firewall Rules

Following are a set of example firewall rules using iptables, for a cluster node on the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet.

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/sbin/iptables -I INPUT 5 -p udp -d 224.0.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT -m comment --comment "mod_cluster traffic"
/sbin/iptables -I INPUT 6 -p udp -d 224.0.0.0/4 -j ACCEPT -m comment --comment "JBoss Cluster traffic"
/sbin/iptables -I INPUT 9 -p udp -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT -m comment --comment "cluster subnet for inter-node communication"
/sbin/iptables -I INPUT 10 -p tcp -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT -m comment --comment "cluster subnet for inter-node communication"
/etc/init.d/iptables save
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