On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 07:32:37PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
On 29 January 2014 17:59, Ricardo ri...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Is a bit mess situation but I can't configure Haproxy as a simple proxy.
The behaviour I'm looking for is an Haproxy listen in port 80, receiving
request to any url and forward each request to the appropiate domain
trought his own gateway.
It sounds to me like you're looking for a /forward/ proxy, which
*really* isn't HAProxy's forte. I seem to recall it can /just/ about
be mangled into doing something like what you want, but you'll have
much more luck looking at Squid for this - that's one of its primary
use cases.
To confirm that you are actually looking for a forward proxy, answer
this: are you able to deterministically list *all* of the domains that
you wish to load-balance? Or are you looking to balance whatever a
user might type into their web browser?
Also - when you mentioned the internet gateway, do you really just
mean a router? I.e. a box which is *just* moving packets, and not
looking inside each HTTP request and then routing them based on the
Host header it finds?
Back to forward proxying: if you don't like Squid, then Nginx can,
with a bit of force, be made to do the job pretty well. Varnish may
also be able to achieve it with its more recent kinda dynamic backends
[citation required; possible rubbish being spouted].
But I wouldn't personally go through the pain of trying to make HAProxy do
this.
In order to complete your response, I'd add that haproxy does not
perform any DNS resolving which is why that usage is not appropriate.
So clearly, better pick a real proxy.
Regards,
Willy
