Load Balancinng Nginx with two vps server

CentOS 6.4:

1	sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

Debian/Ubuntu:

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sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default upstream server_array {   server server1.yourdomain.com;   server server2.yourdomain.com;   server server3.yourdomain.com; }

where server_array is the name of the server group which will be used for the load balancing configuration.

Inside the same file we can "tell" the virtual host to use the server group:

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server {     listen 80;     server_name yourdomain.com;     location / {         proxy_pass http://server_array;     } }

Once ready we can restart the Nginx service:

1	sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start

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If you have installed the nginx package from the Ubuntu repositories, you will have two directories. /etc/nginx/sites-enabled and /etc/nginx/sites-available. In the main nginx configuration, /etc/nginx/nginx.conf, you have the following line: include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf; So basically to list all available virtualhosts, you can run the following command: ls /etc/nginx/sites-available To activate one of them, run the following command: ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/www.example.org.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/