I have a set of webservers with nginx acting as a reverse proxy for tomcat behind an AWS ELB.
Request -> AWS ELB -> Nginx -> Tomcat To understand if my application is healthy or not I have to send a request for /status/health. If "health:0" comes back it means the server is not ready to serve traffic. If "health:1" comes back it means the server is ready to serve traffic. Unfortunately, in both scenarios the http response code is always 200. Since AWS ELB has a dumb healthcheck method I can't place a server in or out of rotation based on the actual response output. AWS only considers http response code. Is it possible to have Nginx modify the http response code based on the upstream output? I want to basically say if the tomcat response is "health:0" return an http response code 503. -- Jeremy Piven [email protected] _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
