On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 11:43:55AM +0200, Cyril Bonté wrote: > Hi Willy, > > > Le 05/04/2012 10:01, Willy Tarreau a écrit : > >On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 12:57:20PM +0200, Cyril Bonté wrote: > >>Proxy ids are unique whereas names can be used several times in the > >>configuration. In order to prevent the ambiguity, the HTML form now > >>provides > >>the backend id instead of its name (the name can still be provided in the > >>POST > >>data). > > > >BTW about this, a minor comment : the statement above is not exact since a > >same name can only appear once for a same type in the config. You can't > >have > >to similarly named backends, nor a backend and a "listen" sharing the same > >name. Only a frontend and a backend may use the same name (used to ease > >conversion from listen to front+back). > > OK I guess where I missed something during my tests. > My test file declared several backends with the same name and it > worked...but i didn't add a "use_backend" or "default_backend" keyword > in any frontend to use them, which is valid for haproxy but has no sense > for such administration tasks ;-)
You're right, in fact it only emits a warning, not an error :-) Cheers, Willy
