haproxy is one of the best known and widely used Open Source load balancers out there and a strong competitor to nginx.
haproxy is used by many large sites per Wikipedia:
HAProxy is used by a number of high-profile websites including GoDaddy, GitHub,........
There are a few caveats that may not be obvious to everyone so I am going to cover them here but keep this in mind before starting.
Before starting install epel or you will be missing tesseract:
yum -y install epel-release
#1) When you specify your SSL certificate with a full path, it really needs to exist where you tell it to (including the default location of /etc/ssl/certs and /etc/ssl/c........
RemoveHandler .html .htmAddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html Just add the above into the .htaccess file for your website. Also remember that you need to be allowed to override the Apache and this should go into the vhost for your site as shown below:
# you need the AllowOverride otherwise .htaccess directives will be ignoredOptions FollowSymLinksAllowO........