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From: Michael Erdmann <michael.erdmann@snafu.de>
Subject: Re: Web Development Using Ada?
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Date: 03 Aug 2013 06:51:50 GMT
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On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:54:42 -0700, Maciej Sobczak wrote:

>> > I would not expect AWS to handle this - specialized tools like nginx
.....
>> > limited resources of the Ada web-development community.
>> 
>> Do you already have some experiences while integrating your Ada
>> application on the nginx?
> 
> Yes. There is nothing special or particular to Ada (and AWS) in this.
> 
> The setup that we use is to have a single nginx proxy server listening
> on port 80 (the "standard" HTTP port) and dispatching requests based on
> the target host name (there can be many such names residing on a single
> physical address) to the particular AWS server that is handling the
> given service. 

Thanxs

sounds really like a reasonable solution. I guess you have also influence 
on the dispatching algorithm allowing? 

This would allow to map different services into different host and 
therefor simplify the LB configuration:-) 
 
>The AWS server can be on the same or on a different
> machine than the one where nginx itself runs. 

Is nginx aware about the availability of a specific host?

>Most importantly, the AWS
> server(s) does not have to listen on any privileged port number, which
> makes it much easier to manage from non-root accounts. All this is
> invisible to users.

I checked the page of nginx.org there is not to much of documentation. By
chance do you have a better link?

/Michael