504 Gateway Timeout NGinx

Posted on March 23, 2022

I am running into a 504 gateway timeout error with my express API. I have a droplet using docker-compose to spin up all the resources. When doing research into the issue people say usually you run out of ram but my memory is only at 60%. I think this is more of a load balancer issue but am unaware of the steps to proceed. I added the client_header_timeout config to nginx.config but that didn’t solve the issue. Any insights would be appreciated.

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Bobby

March 23, 2022

Hello,

I could suggest checking your logs to see if there is some more information on why the connection could be timing out:

docker-compose logs

Feel free to share the logs here after removing any sensitive information.

Also, another thing, if you wish you could share your docker-compose.yaml file here along with your Nginx config and I could have a further look into this.

Regards,

Bobby