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CentOS / Redhat: Install nginx As Reverse Proxy Load Balancer

last updated May 3, 2017 in CentOS, High Availability, KeepAlived, Linux, Nginx, RedHat and Friends

How do I configure nginx as failover reverse proxy load balancer in front of two Apache web servers under CentOS / RHEL 5.x?

CentOS / Redhat Linux: Install Keepalived To Provide IP Failover For Web Cluster

last updated May 3, 2017 in CentOS, High Availability, KeepAlived, Linux, Nginx, RedHat and Friends, UNIX

Keepalived provides a strong and robust health checking for LVS clusters. It implements a framework of health checking on multiple layers for server failover, and VRRPv2 stack to handle director failover. How do I install and configure Keepalived for reverse proxy server such as nginx or lighttpd?