Anyone Using Pound load balancing

[Phillip Weeks]

Has anyone had success using Pound to filter between back end servers? We are using Pound to redirect users from common entry server to the appropriate back-end server based on the URl header. It works well and fast however some dashboards will not fully render and Pound complains headers: request URI too long. It appears the maxbuffer setting in Pound is too low and the request is being truncated. The fix requires re-configuring and recompiling the program with an increased maxbuffer param but as yet have not been able to get the fix working.

[MattFox]

@phillip-weeks said in Anyone Using Pound load balancing:

Has anyone had success using Pound to filter between back end servers?

Sorry no,
I used mod_proxy with Apache for my configuration. Allowed me to use letsEncrypt SSL certs. Haven't had any major issues. Dunno if that would help accomplish what you're trying to do or you need Pound because it provides load balancing and the like...

Good Luck

Fox

Edit: Found this little nugget of info that might help you with redirecting...

A little further down the RewriteCond document:

%{HTTP:header}, where header can be any HTTP MIME-header name

So, you can do it, just not in quite the same form as the pre-extracted headers.

Try this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Port} !=443
RewriteRule .* https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Credit goes to shane madden on Server Fault

[rshah]

Nginx might also do what you want and may be simpler depending on how you set it up.

You can also pretty easily adjust headers on Nginx (if needed)
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