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

Try

proxy_next_upstream error;

The default is

proxy_next_upstream error timeout;

The timeout cannot be more than 75 seconds.

http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpProxyModule#proxy_next_upstream

http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpProxyModule#proxy_connect_timeout