Does Nginx support cookie which acts as a load balance?

[Aleksandar Lazic]

Hi,

On Fre 04.01.2008 01:23, Joe wrote:
> Hi All

> I setup a load balance by using Nginx, there have several Linux boxes
> running PHP+MySQL as the backend servers, they're all for Blog
> service.
>
>        |       |     |     |     |      +--+--+  +-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+
>     | LB1 |  | A | | B | | C | | D |
>     +-----+  +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+
>     Nginx    several Blog servers
>
> Assuming the domain name is blog.abc.com, when user sign in server A
> with his own username and password, if he try to access blog.abc.com
> again, it's possible that his requests will be transferred to server B
> or others, then I think this user will be asked for input his username
> and password again on server B or others. So my question is how can I
> configure Nginx to let this user access server A again when he access
> blog.abc.com until he sign out?

Nginx have not this possibility yet.

A possible solution is to use haproxy[1] as upstream target and let
haproxy[1] make the cookie stickyness

Cheers & hth

Aleks

[1] http://haproxy.1wt.eu/