I currently have two apps at AppFog, they are.
http://sru-forums-prod.aws.af.cm/ and http://sru-home-prod.aws.af.cm/
I have haProxy running locally on my computer, this is my current config file.
global debug
defaults
mode http
timeout connect 500ms
timeout client 50000ms
timeout server 50000ms
backend legacy
server forums sru-forums-prod.aws.af.cm:80
frontend app *:8232
default_backend legacy
The end-goal is that localhost:8232 forwards traffic to sru-home-prod, while localhost:8232/forums/* forwards traffic to sru-forums-prod. However I cant even get a simple proxy up and running.
When I run HAProxy off this config file I receive AppFog 404 Not Found at localhost:8232.
What am I missing, is this even possible?
EDIT:
New config works but now i have a port 60032 coming back in the response.
global
debug
defaults
mode http
timeout connect 500ms
timeout client 50000ms
timeout server 50000ms
backend legacy
option forwardfor
option httpclose
reqirep ^Host: Host:\ sru-forums-prod.aws.af.cm
server forums sru-forums-prod.aws.af.cm:80
frontend app *:8000
default_backend legacy
The reason you are getting an AppFog 404 Not Found is because applications hosted on AppFog are routed by domain name. In order for AppFog to know what app to serve you, the domain name is required to be in the HTTP request. When you go to localhost:8232/forums/ it sends localhost as the domain name which AppFog does not have as a registered app name.
There is a good way to get around this issue
1) Map your application to a second domain name, for example:
af map <appname> sru-forums-prod-proxy.aws.af.cm
2) Edit your /etc/hosts file and add this line:
127.0.0.1 sru-forums-prod-proxy.aws.af.cm
3) Go to http://sru-forums-prod-proxy.aws.af.cm:8232/forums/ which will map to the local machine but will go through your haproxy successfully ending up with the right host name mapped to your app hosted at AppFog.
Here is a working haproxy.conf file that demonstrates how this has worked for us so far using similar methodologies.
defaults
mode http
timeout connect 500ms
timeout client 50000ms
timeout server 50000ms
backend appfog
option httpchk GET /readme.html HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:\ aroundtheworld.appfog.com
option forwardfor
option httpclose
reqirep ^Host: Host:\ aroundtheworld.appfog.com
server pingdom-aws afpingdom.aws.af.cm:80 check
server pingdom-rs afpingdom-rs.rs.af.cm:80 check
server pingdom-hp afpingdom-hp.hp.af.cm:80 check
server pingdom-eu afpingdom-eu.eu01.aws.af.cm:80 check
server pingdom-ap afpingdom-ap.ap01.aws.af.cm:80 check
frontend app *:8000
default_backend appfog
listen stats 0.0.0.0:8080
mode http
stats enable
stats uri /haproxy