Re: basic nginx setup help as load balancer

2016-07-05 Thread NdridCold .
Thank you. In my setup all 3 servers in the upstream block will answer requests for "myapplication.net" . Knowing that, would you say my config I have is sufficient? On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Reinis Rozitis wrote: > But I am confused on a few concepts here. First of all, should my server >

basic nginx setup help as load balancer

2016-07-05 Thread NdridCold .
I was getting a host not found problem while trying to start nginx. nginx: [emerg] host not found in upstream "backendservers.com" in /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:37 I am fairly certain that this is because there is no name resolution for " backendservers.com" in our DNS. So I changed up a fe

Re: does nginx forward requests to backend servers using http or https?

2016-07-05 Thread NdridCold .
Yes, However I did not have the entire stanza un-commented out. I have done that, but now I am encountered with a different error message. Now I get: nginx: [emerg] host not found in upstream "resolveservergroup.com" in /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:40 Here is my default.conf file: upstream bac