subrequest failover

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:56:38PM -0700, James Lyons wrote:

> Thanks so much for help so far -- with what nginx version is "backup"
> introduced?

0.6.7+

See here:
http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES

> I have:
> 378   upstream iks {
> 379     server 127.0.0.1:5397;
> 380     server www.testfailover.net:5397 backup;
> 381   }
> ------------
> on startup I see:
> 2010/09/14 18:46:46 [emerg] 17835#0: invalid parameter "backup" in
> /box/etc/nginx/nginx.conf.iksdev:380
>
> I know we are using 0.6.39 -- which is old, so i suspect this is the
> problem -- but my job has been reluctant to upgrade so far.  Is there
> a workaround?

Please make sure you define upstream before you try to use it in 
any proxy_pass.

Maxim Dounin

p.s. Please do not top-post.  Thank you.