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+# Mongoose-based HTTP load balancer
+
+## Configuration
+
+Load balancer is configured with command-line flags.
+
+### Global flags
+
+* `-p port` – TCP port to listen on. Default: 8000.
+* `-l log_file` – path to the log file. Default: none.
+* `-s ssl_cert` – path to SSL certificate. Default: none.
+
+### Backend configuration
+
+Main flag is `-b uri_prefix host_port` – it adds a new backend for a given
+URI prefix. Example: `-b /stuff/ 127.0.0.1:8080` will route all requests that
+start with '/stuff/' to a backend at port 8080 on localhost. There is a special
+syntax for `uri_prefix` that allows you to change the URIs that get passed to
+backends:
+
+* `-b /stuff/=/ 127.0.0.1:8080` – for '/stuff/thing' backend will see '/thing'.
+* `-b /stuff/=/other/ 127.0.0.1:8080` – '/stuff/thing' => '/other/thing'.
+
+Also there are few per-backend flags that can be placed before `-b` and apply
+only to the next backend:
+
+* `-r` – instead of proxying requests load balancer will reply with 302 
+redirect.
+* `-v vhost` – match not only URI prefix but 'Host:' header as well.
+
+### Example
+
+```
+load_balancer -s path/to/cert.pem \
+  -v example.com -b /site/=/ 127.0.0.1:8080 \
+  -b /static/ 127.0.0.1:8081 \
+  -b /static/ 127.0.0.1:8082
+``` 
+
+In this example requests to 'example.com/site/' will be forwarded to the
+backend on port 8080 with '/site' prefix stripped off and requests to
+'/static/' on any virtual host will be balanced in round-robin fashion between
+backends on ports 8081 and 8082.
+