Re: Load Balancing

Hi,
I solved my problems - the docs were "wrong"/"out of date"/"didn't work for me". I'll document the method I used and distribute it in the next few days.

John

On Tue, 11 April 2000, John Reilly wrote:

>
> On Tue, 11 April 2000, John Reilly wrote:
> Extra comment below.
>
> > Hi all,
> > I have a small problem here - I am trying to use squid to act as a load balancer to a number of http servers, i.e. www.blah.com is squid which does a redirect to www1.blah.com or www2.blah.com
> >
> > My setup is
> >
> > external squid (squid now
> > client -----> does a redirect)
> >
> >
> > external
> > client ------> a http server
> >
> >
> > I've tryed setting squid to be a httpd_accelerator and use a perl script to redirect to one of two hosts.
> >
> > squid is running on www.blah.com:3128
> >
> > http server 1 - www1.blah.com:80
> > http server 2 - www2.blah.com:80
> >
> > I setup 2 virtual interfaces on www which the redirector script re-writes IP addresses to www1 and www2 hostnames in the URLs.
> >
> > setting are:
> > httpd_accel_host virtual
> > httpd_accel_port 80
>
> Should have mentioned also, I tryed to explicitly forward to a single host and got the same behaviour.
> i.e.
>
> httpd_accel_host www1.blah.com
> httpd_accel_port 80
>
> The requests were still sent to www.blah.com:80
>
> >
> > The requests to http://www.blah.com:3128/ are being forwarded to http://www.blah.com/ and the redirector script seems to never be hit.
> >
> > I've followed the advice in the FAQ, and searched through the mail archives, but to no avail.
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
>
>
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