CF2016 uriworkermap.properties not loading in Apache2 Virtualhost

Hello Community!

Working on application isolation paired with multi instance load balancing and came across what I would consider a bug.

The uriworkermap.properties file included in the mod_jk.conf for Apache on RHEL 7 is seemingly completely ignored by my virtualhost.

In all the documentation I came across, the uriworkermap.properties is where to specify the mount points for each of the workers.

What clued me into it not working as I had anticipated, was that every time I ran ab to test the load balancing between different application paths, the first worker listed in workers.properties->worker.list would always handle the requests.

The solutions I have come across so far :

1. Include the uriworkermap.properties inside of the <virtualhost> config

JkMountFile "/opt/coldfusion2016/config/wsconfig/1/uriworkermap.properties"

2. Or Add JkMount entries in the <virtualhost> config

#Load balanced application isolation

JkMount /mysecureapp1 secureapps

JKMount /mysecureapp1/* secureapps

JKMount /* generalapps

I am very curious if this is by design.

Here is the setup and configs (minus the tomcat instance's server.xml files) if anyone cares to have a look.

Setup :

RHEL 7 X64 Minimum install

Coldfusion2016 Enterprise Edition patched to 2016.0.02.299200

Tomcat Version 8.0.32.0

Java JRE Server 1.8.0_102

mod_jk shipped with cf2016

Config Files :

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf  (tail end)

# Supplemental configuration

#

# Load config files in the "/etc/httpd/conf.d" directory, if any.

IncludeOptional conf.d/*.conf

Include "/etc/httpd/conf/mod_jk.conf"

/etc/httpd/conf/mod_jk.conf

# Load mod_jk module

LoadModule    jk_module  "/opt/coldfusion2016/config/wsconfig/1/mod_jk.so"

# Where to find workers.properties

JkWorkersFile "/opt/coldfusion2016/config/wsconfig/1/workers.properties"

JkMountFile "/opt/coldfusion2016/config/wsconfig/1/uriworkermap.properties"

# Where to put jk logs

JkLogFile "/opt/coldfusion2016/config/wsconfig/1/mod_jk.log"

# custom environment variables

JkEnvVar REDIRECT_URL

JkEnvVar REDIRECT_REMOTE_HOST

JkEnvVar REDIRECT_PATH

JkEnvVar REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING

JkEnvVar REDIRECT_HTTP_ACCEPT

JkEnvVar REDIRECT_HTTP_USER_AGENT

JkEnvVar REDIRECT_REMOTE_ADDR

JkEnvVar REDIRECT_SERVER_NAME

JkEnvVar REDIRECT_SERVER_PORT

JkEnvVar REDIRECT_SERVER_SOFTWARE

# Where to put jk shared memory

JkShmFile "/opt/coldfusion2016/config/wsconfig/1/jk_shm"

# Set the jk log level [debug/error/info]

JkLogLevel info

# Select the timestamp log format

JkLogStampFormat "[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] "

AddHandler jakarta-servlet .cfm .cfml .cfc .cfr .cfswf

DirectoryIndex index.cfm

Alias /cf_scripts "/opt/coldfusion2016/cfusion/wwwroot/cf_scripts"

<Directory "/opt/coldfusion2016/cfusion/wwwroot/cf_scripts">

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None

Require all granted

</Directory>

<Files ~ ".hbmxml$">

Require all denied

</Files>

/opt/coldfusion2016/config/wsconfig/1/workers.properties

worker.list=generalapps,secureapps,tomcatstatus

worker.cfusion1.type=ajp13

worker.cfusion1.host=localhost

worker.cfusion1.port=8012

worker.cfusion1.max_reuse_connections=250

worker.cfusion1.lbfactor=1

worker.cfusion1.cachesize=30

worker.cfusion1.route=cfusion1

worker.cfusion2.type=ajp13

worker.cfusion2.host=localhost

worker.cfusion2.port=8013

worker.cfusion2.max_reuse_connections=250

worker.cfusion2.lbfactor=1

worker.cfusion2.cachesize=30

worker.cfusion2.route=cfusion2

worker.cfusion3.type=ajp13

worker.cfusion3.host=wt-cf2016-2

worker.cfusion3.port=8012

worker.cfusion3.max_reuse_connections=250

worker.cfusion3.lbfactor=1

worker.cfusion3.cachesize=30

worker.cfusion3.route=cfusion3

worker.cfusion4.type=ajp13

worker.cfusion4.host=wt-cf2016-2

worker.cfusion4.port=8013

worker.cfusion4.max_reuse_connections=250

worker.cfusion4.lbfactor=1

worker.cfusion4.cachesize=30

worker.cfusion4.route=cfusion4

worker.tomcatstatus.type=status

worker.secureapps.type=lb

worker.secureapps.balance_workers=cfusion1,cfusion3

worker.secureapps.sticky_session=false

worker.generalapps.type=lb

worker.generalapps.balance_workers=cfusion2,cfusion4

worker.generalapps.sticky_session=false

/opt/coldfusion2016/config/wsconfig/1/uriworkermap.properties

/mysecureapp1=secureapps

/mysecureapp1/*=secureapps

/*=generalapps