How To Redirect?

redirect

[hammer15026]

Hi, I'm really new to this.
I want to redirect from one server to another if the first sever is down or unavailable.

[SERVER1:PORT...] to [SERVER2:PORT...]

Any thoughs on this? I looked at the rewrite stuff but I don't quite understand it.

[drbrain]

Err, if server1 is down, it cannot redirect to server2, since it has to be up to redirect.

You can do something like DNS round-robin or use a load balancer to make sure you always have a server available.

[hammer15026]

Sorry I should have been more clear.
Server0 will make the call to server1 or server2

[jdMorgan]

> if the first sever is down or unavailable.

How do you plan to make this determination - automatically, or manually?

What will you do if server0 fails?

Jim

[hammer15026]

I'm not concerned about server0 going down.
All I want to do is on server0 call server1. If it can't make the call because server1 is down then I need it to call server2. This all needs to happen automaticly.

[drbrain]

It looks like you really want to have a hardware load ballancer.