Hi,

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lighttpd and all php requests to Apache. Can the perbal I am using for=20
loadbalancing do the serving for static content? Is this advisable? Is th=
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some special configuration?

Thanks

Ashish
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From: "Ask Bj=F8rn Hansen" <ask@develooper.com>
To: "Ashish Padave" <ashishpadave@gmail.com>
Cc: <perlbal@lists.danga.com>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: LAMP - perbal and wackamole - suggestions pls.


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> On May 11, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Ashish Padave wrote:
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> You could do that.  However, since you only have two servers there's  n=
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> practical reason to distribute the perlbal load anyway.  I would  setup=
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> perlbal on both boxes and just have wackamole move your public  IP betw=
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> the two.
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> If you need to bind to specific IPs (rather than just *:80) you can  on=
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> Linux allow processes to bind to not-local IP addresses with
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> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_nonlocal_bind
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> or the similar sysctl switch.
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> http://www.apsis.ch/pound/pound_lis...2/1165619148000
> http://develooper.com/talks/Real-Wo...2007-r12.pdf=20
> (page ~77)
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>    - ask
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On May 14, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Ashish Padave wrote:

> I was thinking of using perbal to forward requests for static
> content to lighttpd and all php requests to Apache. Can the perbal
> I am using for loadbalancing do the serving for static content? Is
> this advisable? Is there some special configuration?

Yes, that'd be fine.

Either setup the reverse proxy and the web server services on
different IPs or just on different vhosts sharing an IP with the
Vhost plugin.


- ask

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