Since haproxy is not a webserver (it's a reverse proxy), you still need a webserver to actually serve content and run the application.
-Bryan On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:28 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > My backend servers run jetty, and currently I am using nginx that runs on > port 80 to route traffic to the backend that runs on e.g. port 8081. > > I also using nginx to serve the static files for the folder: > > /assets/ > > So all requests that have this folder do net get proxied to jetty on port > 8081, but nginx servers the static files. > > If I use haproxy now, do I still need to run nginx to service static files > or is this something haproxy can do just as effeciently? > > I'd rather reduce the # of services I have to manage :) >
