Feature I'd like to see

[Almir Karic]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:25 PM, xgdlm <grangier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> A feature I'd like to see is the ability to use the "include" directive in an upstream block
>
> something like
>
> upstream proxy3011 {
>  include "proxy.conf";
> }
>
> using a proxy.conf like
>
> server 192.168.0.1 max_fails=5 fail_timeout=10s;
> server 192.168.0.2 max_fails=5 fail_timeout=10s;
> server 192.168.0.3 max_fails=5 fail_timeout=10s;
> server 127.0.0.1 backup;
>
>
> why ?
>
> At the moment I have a bunch of upstream block using all the same configuration
> so adding or removing a server from the list is quite painfull.
>
> Why do I use a bunch of upstream block using the same configuration, for one reason:
> Using a single upstream block is quite dangerous in my case. If one application fails then one or more server are set inoperative
> for all the application using this upstream. Using one upstream for each application solves this issue
>
> What do you think ?

The same "problem" that you are describing can be solved with say
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpProxyModule#proxy_next_upstream while
keeping one upstream block.

>
> Regards,
>
> xav
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