disable frontend

Stop routing traffic to a frontend that is declared in your load balancer configuration file.

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Use the disable frontend command to stop routing traffic to a frontend.

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1. To disable this frontend:

   haproxy
   frontend www
    bind *:80
    default_backend servers
   backend servers
    server s1 192.168.50.20:80

   haproxy
   frontend www
    bind *:80
    default_backend servers
   backend servers
    server s1 192.168.50.20:80

2. Run the disable frontend command with the name of the frontend:

   nix
   echo "disable frontend www" | \
    sudo socat stdio tcp4-connect:127.0.0.1:9999

   nix
   echo "disable frontend www" | \
    sudo socat stdio tcp4-connect:127.0.0.1:9999

The load balancer marks the frontend with status “STOP” on the stats page.

See also Jump to heading #

• enable frontend
• shutdown frontend