Hi!

So I'm having reverse proxy server, where Nginx working as proxy server and loadbalancer. My biggest problem, that I have 2 app backends, which I need sometimes to shutdown. When I write after server down the backend, shutdown and looses sessions. How can I gracefully shutdown one of my app server? So that Nginx wait while all sessions will be completed or for some time? Thank for help.

My simple config:

upstream loadbalancer {
ip_hash;
server 192.168.0.1:443;
server 192.168.0.2:443;
}

Will 'nginx reload' help?

Nginx reload or HUP signal instantly stops to server old sessions to old server and redirects them to new.