disable-on-404

Hello all...

I am working on a new setup and am having an issue, that I will admit, is probably me misreading the docs. We have a couple of other load balance solutions, so I am not new to the concept, this is just our first use of haproxy.

I have 5 backend servers and I am trying to configure it so they can be taken out of service by using the availability of a file. Here is the relevant config section:

backend application-servers

        balance roundrobin
        appsession session_id len 32 timeout 1h
        mode http
        http-check disable-on-404
        option httpchk /alive.htm
        server bb-app1 10.200.35.1:80 check
        server bb-app2 10.200.35.2:80 check
        server bb-app3 10.200.35.3:80 check
        server bb-app4 10.200.35.4:80 check
        server bb-app5 10.200.35.5:80 check

What I am trying to do is if a file exists at the uri of /alive.htm the server is available. If that file gets deleted off of the server that server will be taken out of service for new connections and still allow existing connections. For some reason this isn't working, when looking at the stats page all servers show UP even though only one of the servers has the /alive.htm file on it. I am running 1.3.19 on a 64bit architecture.

Can anyone see what I am missing, or have any other words of wisdom to hopefully get this working for me?

Thanks
Kent Received on 2009/08/05 13:58