I am forced to switch to nginx. Setup was extremely easy. Most likely I am going to use nginx in the future.
With this setup, I can issue http://localhost:8103 and nginx will load balance between https://web1.remote.com:8443 and https://web2.remote.com:8443
Bonus is I don’t need to worry about oracle wallet anymore. It is a nightmare to maintain, especially internal hostname with https.
nginx.conf
worker_processes 1;
pid logs/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
upstream tomcathosts {
server web1.remote.com:8443;
server web2.remote.com:8443;
}
server {
listen 8103;
server_name localhost;
location / {
root /;
proxy_connect_timeout 600;
proxy_send_timeout 600;
proxy_read_timeout 600;
send_timeout 600;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host:$server_port;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_pass https://tomcathosts;
}
}
}
After everything is working, I use nssm to make nginx a window service.
P.S. If you don't have two upstream servers for load balancing, remove the upstream section and put the upstream server hostname directly in proxy_pass
