Hello!

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 01:07:30PM -0400, EvilMoe wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to use Nginx as Load Balancer (traffic). My config is:
>
>
> upstream storages {
> least_conn;
> server str1 weight=1 max_fails=1 fail_timeout=10s;
> server str2 weight=1 max_fails=1 fail_timeout=10s;
> }
>
>
> server {
> listen 80;
> server_name verteilen;
> location / {
> proxy_pass http://storages;
> #return 302 $scheme://storages;
> }
> }
>
>
>
>
> How can I redirect to the server of upstream? With proxy_pass does it work
> but I want to move the traffic to several servers.
> I just need the "storages" variable.

The "upstream" directives defines servers for proxy - and things
like "least_conn" balancer in your config are not at all possible
unless nginx proxies connections.

If you want nginx to return redirects, you can use other
mechanisms available, like split_clients:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_split_clients_module.html

--
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/

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