By arjunshankar
I am running 2 droplets (LAMP) with service running on port 80.
Basically the setup looks like this…
Digital Ocean Firewall
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| Visitor +--+ | | |
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+->+ Load Balancer 1 | | |
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I want the port 80 on both these web servers to be accessible from the load balancer only. Typically port 443 on the load balancer should forward the request to port 80 of either of these machines. But it seems that the firewall is expecting the internal IP of the load balancer which I am not able to figure out.
Is there something wrong with the setup I am trying to make or any step I am missing ??
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I’m not sure how you currently have your firewall configured, but what you’ve described should be possible. Your incoming rule should be set to allow HTTP (tcp port 80) and you can specify the name of your load balancer as the source. If you’re not already using Droplet tags I recommend doing so and using the Droplet tag under the section “Apply to Droplets”. That will make it so that the Droplets running your service can only be accessed from the load balancer on port 80.
Just be sure to allow SSH as well for management.
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