Load Balance with Nginx
I have set up Nginx to do ssl offloading. this works great.
If I choose to use this as a load balancer for my wowza servers do I need to set it for session persistence ( Ip_hash) in Nginx? Or should I be using another method.
TIA
Josh
Best Answer
Hi, yes you can set ip_hash for session persistance. I am using it also this way.
Peter once again thankyou. I wanted to know if you also use Nginx to proxy RTMP streams in support of android devices. If so how do you set up your server blocks for those?
TIA
Josh
Hi
I am using only hls stream cause I am using flowplayer with hlsjs plugin and it covers all modern browsers with http/https streams.
But nginx allows tcp/udp load balancing - it's covered in this docu https://www.nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/tcp-load-balancing/ and it's very straightforward. Load balance rtmp protocol is much more easier than http/s. Back then when hls wans't so popular I was using nginx/haproxy as rtmp load balancer.
I am using Jwplayer and if I use http I have no problem on android phones playing HLS streams. I am hopping that there is just a certificate issue and I can forget RTMP all together much like you.
What I see and people describe as an issue for android devices is ssl Chain issues. I am going to follow this guide first to see if that resolves my problem before I try tcp-load-balancing.
https://thecustomizewindows.com/2015/05/nginx-ssl-certificate-incomplete-chain-issues-fix/
Josh
I have no problem with HLS over https on android devices. If you get some specific error, you can paste here, I will try to debug.
