HAProxy load balancer before Django instances

Question

I would like haproxy to cache / redirect the URL / static /.+ for my django instances in order to speed up the static file. What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

As far as I know, HAProxy does not perform caching. For this you want something like Squid.

As for processing / static / separately, you can configure your HAProxy configuration to redirect any URLs matching the pattern to another cluster:

frontend my_website *:80
    mode http
    acl static url_beg /static/
    use_backend my_static_proxy if static
    default_backend my_django_server

Answer 2

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