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Can HA proxy serve static files like nginx?

• nickramirez 7y ago
  Although HAProxy is not a web server, it does have Small Object Caching so files can be cached on the proxy. https://www.haproxy.com/blog/whats-new-haproxy-1-8/#http-small-object-caching https://www.haproxy.com/blog/whats-new-haproxy-1-8/#http-sma...
• LinuxBender 7y ago
  It can proxy and cache them. There is a hacky way to serve single page static files directly via haproxy, by creating a http file (including headers) and add it to a custom back-end. This is really only useful if you have one or two pages you need to serve and don't want to run another web server. Some people use this for outage or maintenance pages. acl landing path_beg /demo use_backend landing if landing backend landing mode http fullconn 10000 errorfile 503 /opt/ha/landing_page.http http-request set-log-level silent # cat landing_page.http HTTP/1.1 200 Ok Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store Connection: close Content-Type: text/plain This is a static text file served directly from HAproxy 1.9 I will catch grief for showing this. Then use acl's to send specific requests to that page. Obviously change/add headers as required for the content in the file and use-case. Perhaps useful for outage or maintenance pages. Use your imagination for other use cases where you might want to automatically serve such a page. Here it is in use: [1] [1] - https://tinyvpn.org/demo https://tinyvpn.org/demo