Hi Robert, Thank you for your reply. Yes, I have taken the backup parameter into account. It is not clear to me how the backup parameter works in combination with the hash directive and whether this achieves the desired behavior.
~Jonathan On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Robert Paprocki < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Jonathan Simowitz via nginx < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I would like to define an upstream block with a number of servers and >> utilize the hash directive to choose a particular server dependent on the >> request. There is a chance that the chosen server could fail and so I would >> also like to configure a backup server to handle the request in this case. >> If I define an additional server in this upstream and declare it as backup >> will it handle the request if the hash-chosen server fails as defined by my >> proxy_next_upstream directive? >> > > Have you had a look at the 'backup' parameter of http://nginx.org/en/docs/ > http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html#server? Sounds like exactly what you > need. > > > _______________________________________________ > nginx mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx > -- Jonathan Simowitz | Jigsaw | Software Engineer | [email protected] | 631-223-8608
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