atom feed21 messages in ru.sysoev.nginxRe: Switching backends based on a cookie
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saltyfloridaJan 28, 2010 3:42 pm 
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Marcus ClyneJan 29, 2010 2:54 am 
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saltyfloridaFeb 2, 2010 9:30 pm 
Subject:Re: Switching backends based on a cookie
From:Marcus Clyne (ngx.@gmail.com)
Date:Jan 29, 2010 2:54:20 am
List:ru.sysoev.nginx

saltyflorida wrote:

saltyflorida Wrote:

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Eugaia Wrote:

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saltyflorida wrote:

I forgot to mention that I am using caching

with

the HTTP Proxy module and that I only want to cache responses from the production servers.

When

I have the cookie set to "testing" or

"staging",

I'd like to bypass the cache and talk directly

to

the backend. Does this sound feasible?

Sure. Do a rewrite using your $backend

variable

under the 'location /' block to one of three other blocks, which have

the

different definitions of your proxy_pass, proxy_cache_valid...

e.g.

map $cookie_ $backend {

default production; test test; ... }

location / { rewrite ^(.*)$ /$backend/$1; }

location /production/ { proxy_pass http://backend_production; proxy_cache_valid ... }

location /test/ { proxy_pass # no proxy_cache_valid ... }

Note, you'll need some way to catch the case of

no

cookie variable, so it's unwise to put $cookie_ directly in the rewrite result (you'll get an infinite loop on such results).

Marcus, Thank you for your help. I had wondered if I could use a rewrite, but I don't understand how this works. I tried to implement your suggestion, but I am being redirected to /testing/ or /production/. These show up as part of the URL in the browser. Also, trying to visit pages other than the root return a 404 error. Here is my configuration. Can you point out what I'm doing wrong?

http { upstream backend_testing { ip_hash; server ... } upstream backend_staging { ip_hash; server ... } upstream backend_production { ip_hash; server ... } proxy_cache_path /mnt/nginx_cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=one:100m inactive=7d max_size=10g; proxy_temp_path /var/www/nginx_temp;

map $cookie_uslnn_env $backend { default http://backend_production; testing http://backend_testing; staging http://backend_staging; production http://backend_production; }

server { location / { rewrite ^(.*)$ /$backend/$1; } location /testing/ { proxy_pass http://backend_testing; } location /staging/ { proxy_pass http://backend_staging; } location /production/ { proxy_pass http://backend_production; proxy_cache one; proxy_cache_key $my_cache_key; proxy_cache_valid 200 302 304 10m; proxy_cache_valid 301 1h; proxy_cache_valid any 1m; proxy_cache_use_stale updating error timeout invalid_header http_500 http_502 http_503 http_504; } location /wp-admin { proxy_pass http://backend_production; proxy_read_timeout 300; } } }

Correction: The configuration I tried looks like this:

http { upstream backend_testing { ip_hash; server ... } upstream backend_staging { ip_hash; server ... } upstream backend_production { ip_hash; server ... } proxy_cache_path /mnt/nginx_cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=one:100m inactive=7d max_size=10g; proxy_temp_path /var/www/nginx_temp;

map $cookie_uslnn_env $backend { default production; production production; testing testing; staging staging; }

server { location / { rewrite ^(.*)$ /$backend/$1; } location /testing/ { proxy_pass http://backend_testing; } location /staging/ { proxy_pass http://backend_staging; } location /production/ { proxy_pass http://backend_production; proxy_cache one; proxy_cache_key $my_cache_key; proxy_cache_valid 200 302 304 10m; proxy_cache_valid 301 1h; proxy_cache_valid any 1m; proxy_cache_use_stale updating error timeout invalid_header http_500
http_502 http_503 http_504; } location /wp-admin { proxy_pass http://backend_production; proxy_read_timeout 300; } } }

Sorry, my fault. That should have read 'proxy_pass htttp://backend_production/;'. The final slash 'deletes' the first part of the location that's passed.

Note that you will want to add the slash for the /production/, /testing/... blocks, but not for the /wp-admin block.

Marcus.