Making different Tornado servers serve different pages - webserver

Question

Let's say I have two Tornado servers, server1 for serving web pages with pattern /news/blahblah, and server2 for pages with pattern /data/blahblah. These two servers together form the back-end of my application.
I wonder how should I integrate and expose them to the clients, so that different requests to different URLs get served by different server.
I heard of HAProxy, do I have to use that?

Answer 1

You can use haproxy, but you don't need it in this case.
Use nginx.
Here is example of config for multiple tornados:
server {
listen *:80;
server_name myserver.com;
location /data/blahblah {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3001;
proxy_redirect off;
}
location /news/blahblah {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4001;
proxy_redirect off;
}
}
And then you can scale it with haproxy...
listen http 0.0.0.0:80
mode http
stats enable
stats refresh 10s
stats hide-version
cookie MYSERVER insert
balance roundrobin
option httpclose
option httpchk OPTIONS /heath.html
option forwardfor
option httplog
option logasap
log global
server MYSERVER 10.0.0.1:80 cookie SERVER1 check
server MYSERVER 10.0.0.2:80 cookie SERVER2 check
server MYSERVER 10.0.0.3:80 cookie SERVER3 check