Demonstrates proxy pass load balancing to alternative localhost ports.

NGINX Config

#See documentation at http://nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/load-balancer/
upstream loadbalancer {
        #LHS:80 load balancer end point
        server 127.0.0.1 max_fails=1 fail_timeout=5s;
        #RHS:80 load balancer end point
        server 127.0.0.2 max_fails=1 fail_timeout=5s;
}

server {
        #
        # This is the overall end point for all HTTP/S services
        # This end point will load balance to the tcp/80 upstream
        # servers end points which proxy-pass traffic to app.
        #
        listen 80;
        listen 443 default ssl;

        gzip on;
        # gzip_comp_level 6;
        # gzip_buffers 16 8k;
        # gzip_http_version 1.1;
        gzip_types text/plain application/json;

        server_name  endpoint.server.tld;

        ssl_protocols TLSv1;
        ssl_ciphers ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+EXP;
        ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

        ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/mykey.pem;
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/mykey.key;

        access_log  /var/log/nginx/localhost.access.log;

        location / {
        	proxy_pass http://loadbalancer;
        }
}

server {
        listen 127.0.0.1:80;
        server_name lhs;
        location / {
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
        }
}
server {
        listen 127.0.0.2:80;
        server_name rhs;
        location /{
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.2:8080;
        }
}