By Rhys19
I have installed NGINX on my ubuntu 16.04 VPS for an external web program called Pterodactyl and when i went to access the site where i needed to go to their admin panel it showed
502 Bad Gateway
nginx/1.12.1 (Ubuntu)
Steps i did: nginx -t
OUTPUT:
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
then i restarted the vps after it booted i did service nginx status output:
root@HSH-VPS:~# service nginx status
● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: en
Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-07-02 01:14:51 UTC; 21min ago
Docs: man:nginx(8)
Process: 1631 ExecStop=/sbin/start-stop-daemon --quiet --stop --retry QUIT/5 -
Process: 1644 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on; (code
Process: 1632 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process
Main PID: 1646 (nginx)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 4.0M
CPU: 61ms
CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service
├─1646 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_pro
├─1647 nginx: worker process
└─1648 nginx: worker process
Jul 02 01:14:51 HSH-VPS systemd[1]: Starting A high performance web server and a
Jul 02 01:14:51 HSH-VPS systemd[1]: Started A high performance web server and a
then i restarted nginx and again with the 502 error now when pterodactyl installs it creates and enables HTTPS for the ip address/the domain you assigned so i thought maybe if i add a firewall and allow port 443 and allowed https but that didn’t solve it any ideas?
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Your output log shows that nginx has a valid config file, and is running OK.
In this scenario, a 502 Error often means the web server (nginx) could handle and respond to the request just fine, but the application (pterodactyl, running via PHP-FPM) is broken or not properly configured and not connectable from nginx.
Look at the nginx error logs (based on pterodactyl documentation, they’ll be here: /var/log/nginx/pterodactyl.app-error.log if you don’t find anything there, try the default nginx error logs at /var/log/nginx/error.log
Any clues in that log?
Also - I wouldn’t recommend ONLY allowing port 443 via firewall, because users who try and go to the non-secure http version of your url’s won’t get redirected to HTTPS, they’ll just get an error. So ideally you want to allow ports 80 and 443
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