Hi guys,

I have two issues on which I can not seem to find decent help:

1- See the configuration below. If the https://some.site.com site is down, Nginx won't start. I still want Nginx to start whether this site is down or not:

server {
listen 8000;
location / {
proxy_pass https://some.site.com;
}
}


2- We have set up Nginx as a reverse proxy server to send users to a few backend Swazoo web servers. If a particular Swazoo web server is currently busy handling a request, 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?

Thanks!