Redirect request to CDN using nginx

Question

I have a couple of server addreses, like cdn1.website.com, cdn2.website.com, cdn3.website.com. Each of them holds simillar files.

Request comes to my server and I want to redirect or rewrite it to a random cdn server. Is it possible ?

Answer 1

You could try using the split clients module:

http {

  # Split clients (approximately) equally based on
  # client ip address
  split_clients $remote_addr $cdn_host {
    33% cdn1;
    33% cdn2;
    - cdn3;
  }

  server {
    server_name example.com;

    # Use the variable defined by the split_clients block to determine
    # the rewritten hostname for requests beginning with /images/
    location /images/ {
      rewrite ^ http://$cdn_host.example.com$request_uri? permanent;
    }
  }
}