proxy recommendations?

Hassan Schroeder
Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:53:22 -0000

Sorta OT, sorta not. :-)

I want to put a {something} in front of multiple app servers in order
to be able to do rolling updates by quiescing traffic to one, updating
it, starting it, sleep ''til ready, enable, //lather/rinse/repeat//.

I know I''ve done this before with Apache httpd but the current 2.2.11
seems *not* to recognize changes to httpd.conf on restart -- it needs
(apparently) a complete stop/start cycle to recognize that a balancer
has had a member removed/added.

This is using either bin/apachectl -k restart (with httpd.conf changed)
or bin/apachetcl -k restart -f some_other_config_file -- neither seems
to take.

So -- alternatives? Nginx? Pound? other? Something scriptable via
Capistrano would of course be awesome  :-)

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