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NeverBe
NeverBe

Reputation: 5038

Amazon Elastic BeansTalk Nginx configuration

I've been searching a solution how to configure nginx proxy server to work with websockets. I have ready found a bunch of solutions make that. But, these scripts patch nginx.conf in the instances. But my instances don't have nginx running. Nginx is run on a balancer.

So my question is how to patch nginx config on a balancer.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 545

Answers (1)

BraveNewCurrency
BraveNewCurrency

Reputation: 13065

Your question is confusing, because you are saying you are using ELB and you want Nginx. But you can't get websockets in Nginx with normal ELB, and you probably don't need Nginx with ELB except in specific situations.

You have two choices:

1) Continue to use ELB and Elasticbeanstalk. The problem is that ELB doesn't support websockets at all. See this article. You'll need to stop using ELB as a HTTP proxy, and start using it as a TCP proxy. The downside is that your app will now be exposed to your servers going up and down. (In a HTTP proxy, each request can go to a different server. In a TCP proxy, the request stays alive for the whole session, so when the server goes down, your client must 'deal with it.')

2) Run your own load balancer. Best practice is EIP + Nginx + HAProxy. This is quite a different question.

Upvotes: 2

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