load-balancing

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Sat Jul 23 21:56:30 UTC 2011


Hello!

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:35:05AM -0400, andrejvanderzee wrote:

> I have a question about nginx configured as a load-balancer. Usually,
> when HTTP requests are balanced to a back-end server, the HTTP reply is
> sent back to the client through the load-balancer. Is this also the case
> for nginx,

Yes.

> or is it also possible to configure nginx that the backend
> server will directly respond to the client? I wonder...

No.

Maxim Dounin



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