On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:48:41AM -0400, MortenP wrote:

> Is it possible to have nginx proxy to upstream_a and if that fails then default to upstream_b?
>
> What I would like to accomplish is to have a Varnish upstream, and if that's down, then nginx should just proxy to the application backend directly.

upstream ups {
server upstream_a;
server upstream_b backup;
}

However, probably you may omit Varnish and use nginx's proxy cache.


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