could you describe how you got this working? i need something similar
to make sure that a django app doesn't die.

--timball

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:59 PM, kevin gill <kevin@movieextras.ie> wrote:
> I got this working using haproxy with the 'dispatch' option.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>> I am running a low traffic site using nginx. I use one upstream
>> multi-threadded server to serve the content. I use the proxy module to
>> forward the requests.
>>
>> Occasionally, I need to restart the upstream server. I takes 20-30 seconds
>> to startup.
>>
>> I want requests to queue until the server is started, i.e. configure a 30
>> second timeout before I get the "502 Bad Gateway" response.
>>
>> I am running nginx/0.7.64 on ubuntu.
>>
>> Is there an nginx configuration option to make it wait until and retry
>> while the server restarts? Alternatively, is there another product I
>> should put in the middle between nginx and my upstream server which
>> provides this functionality.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kevin
>>
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