Hi Colin,

Of course it is not mandatory to disable www role.

After enabling 'Use Elastic Load balancer' option for app role use
load balancer's hostname to test it.

Nick

2009/7/7 Colin Howe <[email protected]>:
>
> Is there a way to do this without removing the www role?
>
> I'd like to add the load balancer and have the www role still running
> - so that I can test the load balancer is working before potentially
> destroying our production site :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Colin
>
>
> On Jun 29, 3:20 pm, Nickolas Toursky <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> To use Elastic LB, you should:
>>
>> 1. Remove www role from the farm.
>> 2. On the farm edit page, enable 'Use Elastic Load Balancer' option
>> for app role ('Load Balancers' tab).
>> 3. Add ports 80 and 443 as listeners.
>>
>> All the new instances of this role will be automatically registered on
>> the Load balancer.
>>
>> Next, add a DNS record 'www IN CNAME LoadBalancerHost' for your
>> application. LoadBalancerHost is available on Farms->Elastic Load
>> Balancers page.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Arie Fishler<[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I saw that on the farm edit window there is a load-balancing tab where you
>> > can select an elastic-lb on the instances of a specific role. I guess that
>> > once you select it you can give up using the www role
>>
>> > my following question - is there any replacement for the "not available"
>> > messages that were customized on the www role? I replaced the 50x.html 
>> > pages
>> > with my own...
>>
>> > What's the behavior of the elastic LB when nothing is available behind it?
>>
>> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Jhb <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >> Hi,
>>
>> >> Can you please provide simple steps to use the elastic LB ?
>>
>> >> I'm running a classic www-app-mysql farm, and would like to remove the
>> >> www role and benefit from the elastic LB (cheaper).
>>
>> >> Thanks for your help,
>>
>> >> Jonathan
>
> >
>

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