Create a balancer in order to load-balance Artica HTTP Proxy servers

You want to use 2 Artica proxies and balance them trough the load-balancing service.

This configuration require 2 steps:

1. Enable the proxy protocol on the Artica proxy.
2. Activate the Load-balancing service for proxy.

Create a dedicated port on each Artica Proxy server.

• On the TOP menu of your Artica Proxy server, choose “Your Proxy“
• Click on Listen ports configuration.

• Create a new HTTP  port with the “Accept Proxy Protocol” enabled option

• You will see the “Accept Proxy protocol” in blue in the main table.
• Click on Apply to make the port available.

Create the balancer service

• On the balancers option, create a new service.
• On the method, choose HTTP Proxy.
• Click on Add button.

• Click on the new created service link
• Choose backends tab.
• Create a new backend.
• Add the remote proxy  ip address and the remote Proxy service port with “Accept Proxy protocol”  enabled.
• Perform this option for each proxy you want to load-balance.