How can I force a request through mod_jk down to a specific worker?

Question

If I have mod_jk set up with several workers and a load balancer worker, is there a request parameter or something that would allow me to force a specific http request down to a specific worker. For instance if I have a worker worker1 is there something like this:

http://www.example.com?worker=worker1

Often we need to troubleshoot problems on a specific server in the cluster and being able to force the request directly to that server is essential.

Answer 1

I think the common practice is to do that via subdomains which alias the main domain. Just make sure that you don't let Google index because you'll have duplicate content issues. IP filtering and a restrictive robots.txt will do the job.

www1.example.com
www2.example.com