Handling OPTIONS request in nginx

Question

We\'re using HAProxy as a load balancer at the moment, and it regularly makes requests to the downstream boxes to make sure they\'re alive using an OPTIONS request:

Answer 1

In the httpchk option, you can specify the HTTP method like this:

httpchk GET http://example.com/check.php

You can also use POST, or a plain URI like /. I have it check PHP, since PHP runs external to Nginx.