Loadbalancing setup not working as intended

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Hey Guys,

I’m trying to setup a failover scenario with the loadbalancing within Cloudflare. Somehow it didn’t work properly. I tested this by forcing a 404 on the LIVE site. I expected an automatic switch to the failover site, but that doesn’t happen at all. Here is what I configured in Cloudflare:

https://sendspark.com/share/2ojmtvu8t9fuqm1mylxtmivn1tbubb0n

I really would love to have some advice in this particular case.

Cheers,
Jordy

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A 404 just means a resource requested did not exist. Those are very common. What in your configuration leads you to expect a 404 to fail over to the other server?

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Hey, thanks for your quick reply!

I forced the 404 on LIVE by changing index.php to _index.php (WordPress) which results in a 404.

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Load Balancers don’t fail over just because someone encountered a 404 error.

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What would you recommend?

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A 404 error is a resource doesn’t exist. There is no reason for a load balancer to suppose that a resource that doesn’t exist on originA exists on originB.

I guess you could set up a health monitor for that on a specific resource but probably not a design paradigm I’d have chosen.

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Thanks all for your assistance so far. Much appreciated!

So, would it be an idea to force a - let’s say 500 error to see if everything is working as intended?

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I forced a 500 error last week but it is still not automatically switch to failover.

Is there someone whos willing to assist? I’m even willing to pay for it.

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