Hello! On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:08:48AM +0200, Aivaras La wrote:
> Hi all! > > I'm using Nginx as a reverse proxy and loadbalancer with 2 backends. > Sometimes I need to turn off one of the apps server. And I need to do it > gracefully, that when I comment one server in Nginx config, Nginx master > process starts to send new requests to new server, but old requests and > sessions stay in old server. I tried to use down, but it loses sessions. > Then tried use kill -HUP, but Nginx immediately loads new config and > closes old sessions and redirects them to new server. Thanks for help. On kill -HUP nginx does a gracefull shutdown of old worker processes. That is, all requests being handled by old worker processes are continue to work till they are complete. No requests are lost and/or unexpectedly terminated. Details on reconfiguration process can be found here: http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html#reconfiguration -- Maxim Dounin http://nginx.org/en/donation.html _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
