Apache load balancing with tomcat : losing session

Question

I am using proxy pass to load balance my workers. Somehow my tomcat session is getting lost and recreated. I tried standalone tomcat and it works fine but not with load balancer. Please help.

  <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> ProxyPass /balancer-manager ! ProxyPass /images ! ProxyPass / balancer://mycluster/ ProxyPassReverse / balancer://mycluster/ <Proxy balancer://mycluster> BalancerMember ajp://192.168.70.6:9061 route=qa1 ProxySet lbmethod=byrequests </Proxy> <Location /balancer-manager> SetHandler balancer-manager </Location> <Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents"> AllowOverride all </Directory> 

Answer 1

I finally figured out the cause of the issue. I had another server which was being invoked by an absolute URL from the site which was causing the workers JSESSIONID to be overwritten.