nginx proxy to comet

Question

I need some help from some linux gurus. I am working on a webapp that includes a comet server. The comet server runs on localhost:8080 and exposes the url localhost:8080/long_po

Answer 1

I actually managed to get this working now. Thank you all. The reason nginx was 504 timing out was a silly one: I hadn't included proxy.conf in my nginx.conf like so:

include /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;

So, I'm keeping nginx as a frontend proxy to the COMET server.