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

You might want to try listen(80) on the node.js server instead of 8080 (i presume you are using that as an async server?) and potentially miss out Ngnix altogether. I use connect middleware and express to server static files and deal with caching that would normally be handled by Ngnix. If you want to have multiple instances of node running (which I would advise), you might want to look into node.js itself as a proxy / load balancer to other node instances rather than Nginx as your gateway. I ran into a problem with this though when I was serving too many static image files at once but after I put the images on S3 it stabilized. Nginx MAY be overkill for what you are doing. Try it and see. Best of luck.