Server won't start AND Nginx as reverse proxy

[Reinis Rozitis]

> 2- Nginx does not reverse proxy new incoming requests to one of the other 
> Swazoo web servers and the site appears to be 'hanging'. Any help on this?

The default proxy module timeouts are pretty high (like 60s)

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_connect_timeout
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_read_timeout

.. so naturally if the backend doesnt respond in timely matter it can take 
up to a minute for nginx to decide what to do next.


I would also rather than using (with dns resolve):

location / {
   proxy_pass https://some.site.com;
}


choose the upstream module ( 
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html ) and define all 
the backends in the upstream {} block:

upstream someservers {
    server your.backend1.ip:80;
    server your.backend2.ip:80;
    server your.backend2.ip:80;
}

location / {
   proxy_pass http://someservers;
}



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