Re: Behavior between upstream hash and backup

2017-01-12 Thread Jonathan Simowitz via nginx
Thank you Maxim; that is exactly the detailed response I was looking for. If possible I would recommend updating the docs to clarify this for others. http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html#hash ~Jonathan On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Maxim Dounin wrote: > Hello! > > On W

Re: Behavior between upstream hash and backup

2017-01-12 Thread Maxim Dounin
Hello! On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 04:27:51PM -0500, Jonathan Simowitz via nginx wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to define an upstream block with a number of servers and > utilize the hash directive to choose a particular server dependent on the > request. There is a chance that the chosen server c

Re: Behavior between upstream hash and backup

2017-01-11 Thread Jonathan Simowitz via nginx
Hi Robert, Thank you for your reply. Yes, I have taken the backup parameter into account. It is not clear to me how the backup parameter works in combination with the hash directive and whether this achieves the desired behavior. ~Jonathan On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Robert Paprocki < rpapr

Re: Behavior between upstream hash and backup

2017-01-11 Thread Robert Paprocki
Hi, On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Jonathan Simowitz via nginx < nginx@nginx.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to define an upstream block with a number of servers and > utilize the hash directive to choose a particular server dependent on the > request. There is a chance that the chosen se

Behavior between upstream hash and backup

2017-01-11 Thread Jonathan Simowitz via nginx
Hello, I would like to define an upstream block with a number of servers and utilize the hash directive to choose a particular server dependent on the request. There is a chance that the chosen server could fail and so I would also like to configure a backup server to handle the request in this ca