Hi Kamal, You could look into keepalived. This article is a decent (although old) guide: https://backreference.org/2012/04/25/load-balancing-and-ha-for-multiple-applications-with-apache-haproxy-and-keepalived/ (You can ignore all the parts about HAProxy)
- Y On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 8:22 AM kamaljeet singh <kamal_...@yahoo.co.in.invalid> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to configure two Apache mod_proxy servers in failover cluster with > a single backend web server. > > Presently I have a single webserver (since it does not handle heavy > workloads) for which I plan to configure mod_proxy server. Since we will be > relying heavily on the proxy server to handle our web server requests so we > do not want to take any chance of proxy server going down. Considering > this, we wish to configure two mod_proxy servers working in tandem so that > if one proxy server is unavailable due to some reason the other proxy > server is able to handle all web server requests. Is that possible to do? > If yes, how? > > I looked around the web to search for mod_proxy cluster/failover > configuration bout couldn't find any clue. The only information I could > find was failover configuration for backend web servers but this is not > which I want since I have a single backend web server. Instead I need to > have two frontend proxy servers working simultaneously in a failover > cluster mode. > > Any help on this is highly appreciated. > > Regards, > Kamal >
