subrequest failover

[Denis F. Latypoff]

29.07.2010, 04:36, "James Lyons" <james.lyons at gmail.com>:
> I am trying to use nginx as reverse proxy to perform failover from 1
> critical service to another.
>
> When processing a request, it sends a request (http GET) to a backend
> (custom http server) using SubRequest methods. If it is for some
> reason down, and there is no response, i'd like it to fail over to a
> second server. Is there a way to do this in conf settings or do I
> have to make code modifications to accomplish this?
>
> Any help appreciated.

upstream failover {
    server 1.1.1.1; 
    server 2.2.2.2 backup;
}

server {
    [...]
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://failover;
    }
    [...]
}
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br, Denis F. Latypoff.