upstream tornadoFrontends { server 127.0.0.1:8000; server 127.0.0.1:8001; server 127.0.0.1:8002; server 127.0.0.1:8003; } server { listen 80; server_name example.com; # Allow file uploads client_max_body_size 50M; location ^~ /static/ { root /home/example.com/app_dir; if ($query_string) { expires max; } } location = /favicon.ico { rewrite (.*) /static/favicon.ico; } location = /robots.txt { rewrite (.*) /static/robots.txt; } location / { proxy_pass_header Server; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_redirect off; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme; proxy_pass http://tornadoFrontends; } }