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This guide describes the steps required to setup Joget Workflow LEE clustering. The exact steps will depend on the actual products used in each layer.
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Load balancer (hardware or software) to be installed and configured to direct traffic for requests beginning with /jw to the application servers. Verify that the load balancer has been installed and configured correctly so that web traffic is directed to the individual application servers.
Joget Workflow Clustering Configuration
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workflowDriver=com.mysql.jdbc.DriverworkflowUrlDriver workflowUrl=jdbc\:mysql\://host\:port/database_name?characterEncoding\=UTF-8 workflowUser=username profileName= workflowPassword=password |
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- Deploy the WAR files jw.war and jwdesigner.war from the LEE bundle to each of the application servers, e.g. for Apache Tomcat, copy the files into the tomcat webapps directory
- Add a Java -wflow.home=shared_directory_path option in the application server startup e.g. for Apache Tomcat, modify the JAVA_OPTS line
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Once the pre-deployment and clustering configuration has been done, the testing is a matter of using a web browser to access the load balancer.
Sample Installation and Configuration
This sample describes an installation using the following products:
Joget Workflow | Joget Workflow v5 LEE |
Load Balancer | Apache HTTP Web Server 2.4 with mod_proxy and mod_balancer (proxy and load balancing modules) running on Ubuntu 14.04 |
Application Servers | Apache Tomcat 8.0 running on Ubuntu 14.04 |
Shared File Directory | NFS on Ubuntu 14.04 |
Shared Database | MySQL 5.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 |
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sudo exportfs -ra sudo service nfs-kernel-server restart |
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Mount the Shared Directory in the Application Servers
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Open a web browser and access each server to confirm that http://server:8080/jw
Configure Application Server Session Replication
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More information on Tomcat clustering is at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/cluster-howto.html
Configure Load Balancer
In the load balancer server, install Apache HTTP Server
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Deploy and configure Joget Workflow LEE as described earlier in 2.2 Joget Clustering Configuration