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Can I have multiple subdirectories on one Load Balancer pointing to various targets?

Posted September 9, 2021 193 views
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Can I have a Load Balancer (configured as a reverse proxy) to handle multiple paths/subdirectories, for example:

https://mydomain.com/server1 -> droplet:3000
https://mydomain.com/server2 -> app
https://mydomain.com/server3 -> external IP

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bobbyiliev September 10, 2021

Hi there,

I believe that this is not yet doable with the Managed Load balancers. For layer 7 load balancing, you could use HAProxy. You can install it on a Droplet and configure it to your exact needs.

Here is a very good tutorial that covers this and also includes an introduction to Layer 7 Load Balancing:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-haproxy-and-load-balancing-concepts

Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Bobby

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  • TomSvestka September 10, 2021

    Hi Bobby,

    That makes sense, so I would use:

    1) a Load Balancer to provide me with an SSL certificate and DDoS protection
    2) a HAProxy inside of a Droplet that will be accessible only through the Load Balancer in #1

    If I run out of resources in the HAProxy droplet, I can scale it vertically or horizontally, configuring each instance identically (and the Load Balancer will split traffic between them)

    The configuration of HAProxy needs to be done by SSH-ing into the Droplet.

    Is my assumption correct?

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    • bobbyiliev September 10, 2021

      Hi there Tom,

      Yes indeed, this sounds all correct!

      Just one remark, I think that the Managed Load balancer does not come with DDoS protection, but as a suggestion, you could also add Cloudflare as a CDN + DDoS protection service.

      Cloudflare also provides you with an out-of-the-box SSL certificate so that you would not have to implement this on your Load Balancer level.

      Best,
      Bobby

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