[Zope-ZEO] Round-robin FastCGI

[Paul Everitt]

Yes, Michel is correct, rewrite rules are the way to do it.  Note that
this isn't specific to FastCGI -- there are tutorials about it for proxy
pass.

--Paul

Michel Pelletier wrote:
> 
> "Leichtman, David J" wrote:
> >
> > In user:paul's ZEO FAQ at zope.org, he mentions that one way of balancing
> > multiple Zope installations is through round-robin FastCGI. I'm familiar
> > with round-robin DNS, and we are using FastCGI to serve Zope through Apache,
> > but I don't understand what he means by "round-robin FastCGI".
> 
> This is what I understand it to be (I could be wrong):
> 
> The fcgi client (apache) can be used to pass requests to multiple
> backend fcgi servers, even ones on different machines.  Using apache
> rewrite rules (I would presume) you can direct requests in round robin
> or random fasion to your collection of fcgi servers.
> 
> -Michel
> 
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