nginx behind load balancer

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Mon Nov 21 12:46:02 UTC 2011


Hello!

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 07:40:49AM -0500, Rami Essaid wrote:

> Thanks Maxim,
> 
> This looks like exactly what we need.  In your experience does this resolve
> most issues behind a load balancer?

Yes.

Maxim Dounin

> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 07:25:39AM -0500, Rami Essaid wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >
> > > This weekend for scalability we tried putting our nginx servers behind
> > > amazon's elastic load balancers and came across a road block: it does not
> > > transparently pass the user IP and header information to nginx. This
> > caused
> > > issues with several pieces of nginx we use including the IP allow / deny
> > > rules, the limit_req module, and the limit_con module.  Has anyone
> > > successfully put nginx behind a load balancer?  Any ideas on how to make
> > > this work?
> >
> > http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRealIpModule
> >
> > Maxim Dounin
> >
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