To repoduce the problem I've created a VM with 3 network cards and installed Rocky Linux 9.2 minimal. My IP addresses are: - IP1 192.168.122.80 used for apache - IP2 192.168.122.186 used for jboss node 1 - IP3 192.168.122.235 used for jboss node 2 After first boot: - dnf update - dnf install httpd mod_proxy_cluster java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel - in /etc/sysconfig/selinux change SELINUX=permissive - firewall-cmd --permanent --add-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" source address="IP1/24" accept' - reboot Configure httpd - put httpd.conf in /etc/httpd/conf - in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf change lines 2 and 3 (Listen) and lines 75 and 93 (VirtualHost) with your IP1 [don't change ports] - mv /etc/httpd/mod_proxy_cluster.conf.sample /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/10-cluster.conf - in /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-proxy.conf comment line 8 #LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so Download JBoss EAP 6.3 and unzip in two directories (node1 and node2) Configure JBoss node1 - put standalone.conf in ~/node1/bin and change line 50 THISIP=192.168.122.186 with your IP2 - put standalone.xml in ~/node1/standalone/configuration and change line 433 proxy-list="192.168.122.80:81" with your IP1 [don't change port] - put jboss-helloworld.war in ~/node1/standalone/deployments/ - touch ~/node1/standalone/deployments/jboss-helloworld.war.dodeploy Configure JBoss node2 - put standalone.conf in ~/node2/bin and change line 50 THISIP=192.168.122.186 with your IP3 - put standalone.xml in ~/node2/standalone/configuration and change line 433 proxy-list="192.168.122.80:81" with your IP1 [don't change port] - put jboss-helloworld.war in ~/node2/standalone/deployments/ - touch ~/node2/standalone/deployments/jboss-helloworld.war.dodeploy Start services: - systemctl start httpd - ~/node1/bin/standalone.sh - ~/node2/bin/standalone.sh Checks: - apache is running http://IP1/server-status - cluster is running http://IP1/cluster-status (see cluster-status.png) - application is running on node1 http://IP2:8080/jboss-helloworld - application is running on node2 http://IP3:8080/jboss-helloworld - no error messages in /var/log/httpd/cluster_error_log Test application on cluster http://IP1/jboss-helloworld HTTP status 503 service unavailable For each request a error i written in /var/log/httpd/error_log [Tue Aug 29 17:47:41.978206 2023] [:error] [pid 17034:tid 17077] proxy: CLUSTER: (balancer://cluster). All workers are in error state