Nginx - The Null Route

HAProxy 'home' Load Balancer

Introduction: I've done a few posts in the past about using nginx as a reverse proxy / loadbalancer, however I thought I'd look into HAProxy as a possible alternative to some of the issues I was facing. Such issues include: nginx failing to start if downstream services are not online. Site

Nginx

Correct IP in nginx logs behind reverse proxy / load balancer

Problem: So I finally got a log solution I like working properly. Logs in the load-balancer are correct in terms of their external IP. The problem is when I look at the webserver logs, this has the IP of the load balancer as the client. Solution: We need to add

Linux

Nginx Reverse Proxy based on user-agent

Problem: I run a 'load balancer' at home. The first thing I hear when I tell people this is something along the lines of 'what on earth are you running if you need a load balancer at home?!' Now technically it's not really a load balancer it's a reverse