[emerg]: invalid parameter "backup" error on Ubuntu

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:05:04AM -0400, stefancaunter wrote:

> this is the funny thing, with ip_hash removed from upstream config, I still get 
> 
> : invalid parameter "backup" 
> 
> and I'm not sure why. I wonder if anyone sees this behaviour. I can flip to the backup server but it isn't automatic...

This usually means that you used upstream before definition and 
therefore default upstream was implicitly created (assuming you 
just used hostname in proxy_pass).

Maxim Dounin