I'm attempting to setup Nginx as a load balancer using the StrongLoop Nginx Controller. Nginx will be acting as a load balancer for a StrongLoop LoopBack application hosted by the standalone StrongLoop Process Manager. However, I've been unsuccessful at making the Nginx deployment following the official directions from StrongLoop. Here are the steps I've taken:
Step #1 -- My first step was to install Nginx and the StrongLoop Nginx Controller on an AWS EC2 instance. I launched an EC2 sever (Ubuntu 14.04) to host the load balancer, and attached an Elastic IP to the server. Then I executed the following commands:
$ ssh -i ~/mykey.pem ubuntu@[nginx-ec2-ip-address]
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nginx
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.12 | sudo bash -
$ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
$ sudo npm install -g strong-nginx-controller
$ sudo sl-nginx-ctl-install -c 444
Then I opened up port 444 in the security group of the EC2 instance using a Custom TCP Rule.
Step #2 -- My second step was to setup two Loopback application servers. To accomplish this I launched two more EC2 servers (both Ubuntu 14.04) for the application servers, and attached an Elastic IP to each server. Then I ran the following series of commands, once on each application server:
$ ssh -i ~/mykey.pem ubuntu@[application-server-ec2-ip-address]
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.12 | sudo bash -
$ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
$ sudo npm install -g strong-pm
$ sudo sl-pm-install
$ sudo /sbin/initctl start strong-pm
Step #3 -- My third step was to deploy the application to each of the application servers. For this I used StrongLoop Arc:
$ cd /path/to/loopback-getting-started-intermediate # my application
$ slc arc
Once in the StrongLoop Arc web console, I built a tar for the application, and deployed it to both application servers. Then in the Arc Process Manager, I connected to both application servers. Once connected, I clicked "load balancer," and entered the Nginx host and port into the form and pressed save. This caused a message to pop up saying "load balancer config saved."
Something strange happened at this point: The fields in StrongLoop Arc where I just typed the settings for the load balancer (host and port) reverted back to the original values the fields had before I started typing. (The original port value was 555 and the original value in the host field was the address of my second application server.)
Don't know what to do next -- This is where I really don't know what to do next. (I tried opening my web browser and navigating to the IP address of the Nginx load balancer, using several different port values. I tried 80, 8080, 3001, and 80, having opened up each in the security group, in an attempt to find the place to which I need to navigate in order to see "load balancing" in action. However, I saw nothing by navigating to each of these places, with the exception of port 80 which served up the "welcome to Nginx page," not what I'm looking for.)
How do I setup Nginx as a load balancer using the StrongLoop Nginx Controller? What's the next step in the process, assuming all of my steps listed are correct.
What I usually do is this:
Maybe this can solve your problem.