Using a Selector
Jeremy James
jbj at forbidden.co.uk
Tue Dec 11 17:56:58 UTC 2007
J Davis wrote:
> I'm trying to configure both a reverse_proxy service and a web server
> service on the same perlbal instance.
> I want to use URL matching to determine which URL's get served by the
> reverse_proxy and which get served by the web_server.
> By looking at the documentation and some example configurations I can
> see that this type of setup probably involves creating a selector
> service and by digging through the mail archives I found a link to a "
> Urlmatch.pm <http://Urlmatch.pm>" plugin but I can't find any
> documentation on how to configure perlbal to tie all of this together.
Urlmatch (as hosted on jeremy.publication.org.uk) is largely deprecated
by the official Vpath(s) plugin included in 1.60 - I believe it offers
the same functionality (although uses a straightforward regexp matching
instead of my slightly funky apache-style url matching).
> Below is a partial example of how I think this might work but I don't
> have any idea how to tell urlmatch how to work.
> Any pointers or examples would be greatly appreciated.
> ...snip...
You shouldn't normally need to specify a listen address for each
service, unless that's behaviour you explicitly want...
I'd imagine something like (not tested!):
-- start of perlbal.conf --
LOAD vpath
# Or move these into a seperate nodelist file
CREATE POOL apache_backends
POOL apache_backends ADD 192.168.1.40
POOL apache_backends ADD 192.168.1.41
POOL apache_backends ADD 192.168.1.42
CREATE SERVICE apache_proxy
SET role = reverse_proxy
SET pool = apache_backend
SET persist_backend = on
SET verify_backend = on
ENABLED apache_proxy
CREATE SERVICE local_images
SET role = web_server
SET docroot = /var/imageroot/
SET dirindexing = 0
ENABLE local_images
CREATE SERVICE mainselector
SET listen = 0.0.0.0:80
SET role = selector
SET plugins = vhost
VPATH /images/.* = local_images
VPATH .* = apache_proxy
ENABLE mainselector
-- end of perlbal.conf --
Note that images would be served from the docroot, ie. you are accessing
files under a directory at /var/imageroot/images/ - perhaps a update to
vpath will allow chopping prefixes off URLs? (hint hint)
Also, note that you can't officially have multiple selectors chained
together (ie. a vhost selector going on to a vpath selector). However, I
have a posted a patch to this list that allows you to do this (dated
25th April '07 with the title 'Patches: Chained Selectors and Multiple
Listen'). We have been using this on a medium-loaded server since
posting that without issues.
Best wishes,
Jeremy
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