docker nginx stream balancer 404 - nginx

Question

I have docker and nginx version: nginx/1.10.0 (Ubuntu 16.04)
my nginx.conf
user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
# multi_accept on;
}
http {
##
# Basic Settings
##
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
# server_tokens off;
# server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
# server_name_in_redirect off;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
##
# SSL Settings
##
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
##
# Logging Settings
##
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
##
# Gzip Settings
##
gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
# gzip_vary on;
# gzip_proxied any;
# gzip_comp_level 6;
# gzip_buffers 16 8k;
# gzip_http_version 1.1;
# gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
##
# Virtual Host Configs
##
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}
include /etc/nginx/tcpconf.d/*;
#mail {
# # See sample authentication script at:
# # http://wiki.nginx.org/ImapAuthenticateWithApachePhpScript
#
# # auth_http localhost/auth.php;
# # pop3_capabilities "TOP" "USER";
# # imap_capabilities "IMAP4rev1" "UIDPLUS";
#
# server {
# listen localhost:110;
# protocol pop3;
# proxy on;
# }
#
# server {
# listen localhost:143;
# protocol imap;
# proxy on;
# }
#}
this is default nginx.conf, and I added include /etc/nginx/tcpconf.d/*;
tcpconf.d contains 1 file:
stream {
upstream docker{
server localhost:8182;
server localhost:8183;
}
server {
listen 443;
proxy_pass docker;
}
}
So basically i have glassfish 4 server on docker, and when i start container on port 8182 i want to nginx balance request to port 8183(if 8182 not responding) and in reverse order.
And this is works perfectly, except one thing, when i start container, glassfish server is starting and web application on this server is starting too. Glassfish starts after 1-5 seconds and web application after 30 sec - 1 min, so when glassfish is up(for example on port 8182) nginx send request to this port and i getting 404, because glassfish is up, but web application is not, in this case I want to be redirected on port 8183 because 404 is not what i want to see)
so my question is how to tell nginx to not showing me 404 and try to request another port?

Answer 1

Is there any reason you are using the stream module for this? If it is a regular http server NGINX is proxying to then use regular http{} and proxy_next_upstream to define behavior on 404 error:
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_next_upstream