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Asked: 2010-01-25 06:42:42 +0800 CST

How to divert traffic based on hostname using HAProxy?

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I've had some initial success with HAProxy setting up a bunch of app servers listening on various other ports.

I now have another webserver listening on one port, and i'd like to what changes to make to my config to flow traffic by hostname as well.

The following is the current setup, assuming:

  • my apache webserver is running at examplecom:8001
  • my bunch of app servers 0.0.0.0:8081, 0.0.0.0:8082 , 0.0.0.0:8083 
global
  log 127.0.0.1 local0
  log 127.0.0.1 local1 notice
  maxconn 4096
  debug
  #quiet
  #user haproxy
  #group haproxy

defaults
  log global
  mode  http
  option  httplog
  option  dontlognull
  retries 3
  redispatch
  maxconn 2000
  contimeout  5000
  clitimeout  50000
  srvtimeout  50000

listen appservers 0.0.0.0:80
  mode http
  balance roundrobin
  option httpclose
  option forwardfor
  #option httpchk HEAD /check.txt HTTP/1.0
  server  inst1 0.0.0.0:8081 cookie server01 check inter 2000 fall  3
  server  inst2 0.0.0.0:8082 cookie server02 check inter 2000 fall  3
  server  inst3 0.0.0.0:8083 cookie server01 check inter 2000 fall  3
  server  inst4 0.0.0.0:8084 cookie server02 check inter 2000 fall  3
  capture cookie vgnvisitor= len 32

(any other comments on the ^ setup are welcome.)

Now I'd like to continue the same above, but in addition in case - if the hostname is myspecialtopleveldomain<dot>com, then would like to flow traffic to example<dot>com:8001

~B

ubuntu load-balancing proxy hostname haproxy

1 Answers

  1. Here is an example:

    frontend http
        bind 0.0.0.0:80
        default_backend www
        # NAT static host names and static paths in other hostnames to a different backend
        acl host_static hdr_beg(host) -i static.
        acl url_static  path_beg         /static
        use_backend static if host_static or url_static

backend www
        balance roundrobin
        server  qa1 10.177.1.81:80
        server  qa2 10.177.1.45:80

backend static
        balance roundrobin
        server  media1 10.177.0.86:80
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