Re: HAProxy thinks Plex is down when it's not

[Shawn Heisey]

On 2/19/2022 9:46 AM, Moutasem Al Khnaifes wrote:
I use HAProxy to get access to NextCloud and Plex from outside the 
network. but for some reason HAProxy thinks that Plex is down, and the 
status page is inaccessible

Here's my plex backend which has not failed me yet.  Currently running 
haproxy 2.4.13 compiled from source:

backend be-plex-32400
        description Back end for plex.
        cookie XXXXX insert indirect nocache
        no log
        log localhost len 65535 format rfc5424 local0 notice err
        option httpchk
        http-check connect
        http-check send meth HEAD uri /web/index.html
        server gollum localhost:32400 cookie gollum check inter 10s 
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I've been doing a little bit of research trying to see if the plex 
server has some kind of healthcheck URL, and I haven't come up with 
anything.  As an example, gitlab has "/-/liveness" which I use in 
haproxy for my gitlab server.

Thanks,
Shawn