title: Drupal Load Balancing
body: <p>So we have a drupal 6 website that is running good, but now we want to prepare it for a <em>lot</em> of traffic, so the next step is to have 2 web servers running the same site (the database is already running on a separate server) and then use a another server to do the load balancing between those 2.</p>
  
  <p>So yesterday i mirrored the files of the original drupal server (that runs at lets say www.example.com) to the new server (that runs at lets say 123.123.123.123 - just an IP, no domain), than i edited the settings.php file of the second one to make sure that the base url is 123.123.123.123.</p>
  
  <p>once i browsed to 123.123.123.123 to test out if the mirror of the site was working, i got a blank page.. looking at the source, the basic structure was there, but no content, and the CSS was pointing to the right place but still not showing.. I decided to browse to 123.123.123.123/admin/ and see what i could do.. went to the site performance and cleared the cache, didn't do a thing but then i noticed the original drupal was now showing blank... so i went to www.example.com/admin/, cleared the cache also, site was back, but it appeared the menu router was destroyed because i was getting "page not found" everywhere. So i went to the modules page and clicked save hopping that it would rebuild the menu router. It did the trick, site was back online and working good.</p>
  
  <p>Obviously i stopped poking around with 123.123.123.123 and decided it was time to ask for some help from the experts...</p>
  
  <p>What am i doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!</p>
  
  <p>Julien</p>