Can I have two different domains point to same loader, but load different websites?

Hey friend,

This is fine but you would need a virtual host (Apache) / server block (Nginx) on each server that routes the traffic for the requested website. You can do this:

- Load Balancer
-- Droplet 1
---- Site 1
---- Site 2
-- Droplet 2
---- Site 1
---- Site 2

But you can’t do this reasonably:

- Load Balancer
-- Droplet 1
---- Site 1
-- Droplet 2
---- Site 2

These may help you in configuring the web server for it:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-nginx-server-blocks-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04

Jarland

I don’t use apache nor nginx, I just use straight up Node.js

Hello, @jarland.

You say I can route 2 different domains through 1 loadbalancer? I don’t think you can do that…

What I wanted is: web.xxx.com:443 -> loadbalancer (with SSL termination) -> droplet-1:80 api.xxx.com:443 -> loadbalancer (with SSL termination) -> droplet-1:80

The thing is that it doesn’t let me have 2 rules with the same port. I can only understand this if the routing is done in layer 4, but if routing is done in layer 7 (which is HTTP layer), it should be able to map the domain names to the correct rules.