Dear All,

I am trying to setup a High-Availability HTTP Load Balancer With HAProxy & Heartbeat using the below links. I have all RHEL 5.4 servers hosted on VMWare.

http://www.howtoforge.com/high-avail...rtbeat-fedora8
http://www.howtoforge.com/high-avail...eat-fedora8-p2

This is the scenario, as given in the links as wells as my setup.
Shared IP: 192.168.0.120

Load Balancer 1
Hostname: lb1.example.com
IP: 192.168.0.110

Load Balancer 2
Hostname: lb2.example.com
IP: 192.168.0.111

Web Server 1
Hostname: http1.example.com
IP: 192.168.0.112

Web Server 2
Hostname: http2.example.com
IP: 192.168.0.113

I have followed all the steps mentioned in the links religiously except the 2.2 here, in which it is asking to configure the vhosts. I could not really understand , what is to be placed in /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf file and in which Web Server.

Due to this step only, I think I am failing in Failover test given in Point 4.1 here. I am able to open the webpage by http://192.168.0.120/ which gives the content of Web Server 1 (http1.example.com). But, when I try to shutdown the http service (to check failover), it does not shows the contents of Web Server 2 (http2.example.com)

Although, I am able to succeed in Failover Test 4.2, in which shared IP 192.168.0.120 switches when I try to start/stop the any of the Load Balancers.

Waiting for your precious answers. Thanks in advance.

step 2.2 is nothing more than housekeeping for log messages, it won't affect the actual behaviour of the system at all.

If you want to troubleshoot why it's not working, you need to be looking at the logs on the LB machines, that's what they're there for. There's no way we can read a config guide and tell you what you've done wrong from that alone.

Hi Acid,

I had given the guide links so that any other LQ member who is trying a similar setup can get help from this thread.

Logs could not help much. However, I am glad that I at last figured out the problem.
I had mistakenly used 192.168.0.112 IP in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf of Web Server 2 (http2.example.com). I should have used 192.168.0.113

Thanks Acid for your time and reply. I am happy man now. Another good thing I learnt in Linux. I am marking this thread as Solved.