JDBC persistence of session data not working on iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition 6.0 SP2

Question

I am using windows 2000.
iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition 6.0 SP2
I tried to do jdbc persistence for sessiondata.
Somehow it didn't work.
I edited the JdbcStore code and added some system.outs in it.
From the logs I could note that
It is going into
JdbcStore.init(Properties config)//when the server starts up
JdbcStore.reap(long currentTime) //when the server is brought down
But it is not going into
JdbcStore.save(IWSHttpSession session)
JdbcStore.remove(IWSHttpSession session)
JdbcStore.load(IWSHttpSession session)
I did a "select count(*) from sessions" and it got me
no of rows=0.
The logs contained
[06/Mar/2002:11:25:09] info ( 552): IWSSessionManager: Maximum number of sessions is 1000
[06/Mar/2002:11:25:10] info ( 552): IWSSessionManager: Maximum number of sessions is 1000
[06/Mar/2002:11:25:14] info ( 552): JdbcStore: initialized with url=jdbc:odbc:LocalServer, driver=sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver
So I should think it was working.
The pages that are using HttpSession are working ok but should I not get some rows in my table "sessions" when I query?
This is the webapps.xml I used.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!-- iWS 6.0 specific web application configuration. -->
<!DOCTYPE vs PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.; iPlanet//DTD Virtual Server Web Applications 6.0//EN" "http://developer.iplanet.com/webserver/dtds/iws-webapps_6_0.dtd">
<vs>
<!-- Define global configuration -->
<!-- Configure a session manager and tracking configuration -->
<session-manager
class='com.iplanet.server.http.session.IWSSessionManager' >
<init-param>
<param-name>maxSessions</param-name>
<param-value>1000</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>timeOut</param-name>
<param-value>1800</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>session-failover-enabled</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>reapInterval</param-name>
<param-value>600</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>session-data-store</param-name>
<param-value>com.iplanet.server.http.session.JdbcStore</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>url</param-name>
<param-value>jdbc:odbc:LocalServer</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>provider</param-name>
<param-value>sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>username</param-name>
<param-value>sa</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>password</param-name>
<param-value>sa</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>lookupPool</param-name>
<param-value>4</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>insertPool</param-name>
<param-value>4</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>updatePool</param-name>
<param-value>4</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>deletePool</param-name>
<param-value>4</param-value>
</init-param>
<!--
<init-param>
<param-name>session-failover-enabled</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
-->
</session-manager>
<session-tracking use-cookies="true" />
<!-- Define the web applications for this virtual server-->
<!-- catalog application -->
<web-app uri="/Web" dir="E:/iPlanet/Servers/docs" enable="true" >
<!-- Specify a tempory directory. A path returned in the "javax.servlet.context.tempdir" property; defaults to WEB-INF/tmp. -->
<!--
<tempdir dir='/var/catalog/tmp'/>
-->
<!-- reload classes at every 5 minutes; also include mycatlog.jar file in the classpath -->
<!--
<class-loader reload-interval='300' classpath='/home/work/mycatalog.jar' />
-->
</web-app>
</vs>

Answer 1

I'm trying to do the same thing with a file store, also somewhat unsuccessfully. However, one thing I can point out is that the manual says that the <session-manager> element should be within the <web-app> element in web-apps.xml. In your example, it is outside of it.