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while new_server() takes the parent proxy as argument and even assigns srv->proxy to the parent proxy, it didn't actually inserted the server to the parent proxy server list on success. The result is that sometimes we add the server to the list after new_server() is called, and sometimes we don't. This is really error-prone and because of that hooks such as REGISTER_POST_SERVER_CHECK() which as run for all servers listed in all proxies may not be relied upon for servers which are not actually inserted in their parent proxy server list. Plus it feels very strange to have a server that points to a proxy, but then the proxy doesn't know about it because it cannot find it in its server list. To prevent errors and make proxy->srv list reliable, we move the insertion logic directly under new_server(). This requires to know if we are called during parsing or during runtime to either insert or append the server to the parent proxy list. For that we use PR_FL_CHECKED flag from the parent proxy (if the flag is set, then the proxy was checked so we are past the init phase, thus we assume we are called during runtime) This implies that during startup if new_server() has to be cancelled on error paths we need to call srv_detach() (which is now exposed in server.h) before srv_drop(). The consequence of this commit is that REGISTER_POST_SERVER_CHECK() should not run reliably on all servers created using new_server() (without having to manually loop on global servers_list)
HAProxy
HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Installation
The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.
Getting help
The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.
The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.
Documentation
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.
Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:
- INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
- BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
- LICENSE for the project's license
- CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions
The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:
- doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
- doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
- doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
- doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
- doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
- doc/management.txt for the management guide
- doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
- doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
- doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
- doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)
License
HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.