NGINX Cookbook

How to do it...

1. In order to allow the dynamic reload, we'll configure our upstream block directive, as well as two server block directives. Like most of the NGINX configuration, we can place this in a standalone file (for example, loadbalancer.conf) within the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory. Here's the configuration:

      upstream localapp { 
          zone backend 64k; 
          server 127.0.0.1:8080; 
          server 127.0.0.1:8081; 
          server 127.0.0.1:8082; 
      } 
 
      server { 
          listen       80; 
          server_name  dynamicload.nginxcookbook.com; 
          access_log  /var/log/nginx/dynamicload-access.log  combined; 
          location / { 
              proxy_pass http://localapp; 
          } 
      } 
 
      server { 
          listen 127.0.0.1:8189; 
 
          location /upstream_conf { 
              upstream_conf; 
          } 
      } 

You can also use the HTest tool for ease of testing if this is outside of a ...