Hello everyone, 

i have pound installed on ubuntu, 10.10

i ran into a problem with my setup, where i have webmail clients who try to
access the webmail app, and i have been getting complaints that they log in and
they get error saying not logged in. so i investigated this and i think i have
narrowed it down to a problem with sessions, 

when they go tot he website

http://webmail.domain.com  internally
it may be handed to one server but by time they log in it is being sent to
another server thus the error. is there a way to have all the session or
session information follow along with the login information or how would this
work, 

the webmail application only uses php files, no database backend, 

any information would be helpful

Adrian Padilla

Adrian,

You need to have a common session server for your application. Pound does
not keep your session data, it only stores information about your session
that allows it to stick a user on a certain BE.

You need a common database. If you can't do this, then you will have
problems running a reverse proxied mail system like yours. Maybe there is a
PHP common session extension that allows you to replicate session across PHP
instances using something like Zend.
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You have to read how your webmail works with sessions, normally a php cookie
with session id is created , it is can be used with pound with session TYPE
directive.

example on google:

 ListenHTTP
      Address 127.0.0.1
      Port 8000
      xHTTP 2
    End

    Service
        BackEnd
            Address 127.0.0.1
            Port  8080
        End
        BackEnd
            Address 127.0.0.1
            Port  8081
        End
       Session
          Type    COOKIE
          ID      "squirrelcookie"
          TTL     300
       End


    End


ID is the name of cookie, created and saved on the client browser.

Regards!

2011/4/8 Jacob Anderson <jwa(at)beyond-ordinary.com>
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