Re: Load balancing to name-based virtual hosts

The simplest method would be to set up each server to respond to the same domain name. eg location1, location2, etc would all have the domain ' soap.vendor.com' set up. Then, a user requests soap.vendor.com from the haproxy load balancer, it gets randomly passed to one of the backends, which has no problem because it is set up to handle that name

-David R

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Jeff Buchbinder < jbuchbinder#ravewireless.com> wrote:

> We were trying to set up a high availability setup for accessing one of our
> vendors' SOAP services, which is located on name based virtual servers.
> Attempting to access any of the sites using the IP address doesn't work
> properly, since they are using HTTP/1.1 name based virtual hosting.
>
> HAproxy doesn't support using FQDN for destination servers, so the only way
> I can figure doing it is using header rewriting to force it to call the
> correct name, but each server has its own slightly different name, like
> location1.vendor.com, location2.vendor.com, etc. Can anyone think of a way
> of doing this that I'm missing?
>
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> Jeffrey Buchbinder
> Senior Infrastructure Engineer
> Rave Wireless, Inc
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> jbuchbinder#ravewireless.com
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Received on 2008/12/11 20:01