Behavior between upstream hash and backup

[Robert Paprocki]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Jonathan Simowitz via nginx <
nginx at nginx.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to define an upstream block with a number of servers and
> utilize the hash directive to choose a particular server dependent on the
> request. There is a chance that the chosen server could fail and so I would
> also like to configure a backup server to handle the request in this case.
> If I define an additional server in this upstream and declare it as backup
> will it handle the request if the hash-chosen server fails as defined by my
> proxy_next_upstream directive?
>

Have you had a look at the 'backup' parameter of
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html#server? Sounds
like exactly what you need.
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