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[error] 25#25: *2 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream

Please anyone can help me, I’m trying to run my django project with nginx and I faced this error.

Docker-compose file:

version: "3.8"

services:
    django:
        build: .
        container_name: JobBoard
        command: bash -c " gunicorn JobApplicationSystem.wsgi:application --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 " #&& python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000"
        volumes:
            - static_volume:/app/staticfiles
            - media_volume:/app/mediafiles
        #expose:
           # - 8000

        ports:
            - '8000:8000'
        depends_on:
            - sqlserver
    
    sqlserver:
        image: mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server
        container_name: sqlserver
        hostname: sqlserver
        environment:
            - ACCEPT_EULA=Y
            - MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD=Aaaa@12345 #${SQL_DB_PASS}
        ports:
            - '1433:1433'
        volumes:
            - sqlserver-data:/var/opt/mssql

    nginx:
        build: ./nginx
        container_name: nginx
        volumes:
            - static_volume:/app/staticfiles
            - media_volume:/app/mediafiles
        ports:
            - 1337:80
        depends_on:
            - django


volumes:
  media_volume:
  static_volume:
  sqlserver-data:
    driver: local

Docker file :

# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1

FROM python:3.8-slim-buster
ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1





# create the appropriate directories
ENV HOME=/app
ENV APP_HOME=/app
RUN mkdir $APP_HOME
RUN mkdir $APP_HOME/staticfiles
RUN mkdir $APP_HOME/mediafiles
WORKDIR $APP_HOME

COPY requirements5.txt ./
RUN python -m pip install --upgrade pip
RUN apt-get update \
  && apt-get -y install gcc \
  && apt-get -y install g++ \
  && apt-get -y install unixodbc \
  && apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends \
        apt-transport-https \
        curl \
        gnupg \  
        tdsodbc\
 && curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | apt-key add - \
 && curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/18.04/prod.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-release.list \
 && apt-get update \
 && ACCEPT_EULA=Y apt-get install -y msodbcsql17\
 && apt-get install -y  unixodbc-dev \
 && apt-get clean \
 && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
 && rm -rf /tmp/*
RUN pip3 install -r requirements5.txt
COPY . .

nginx config file :

server {

    listen 80;
    server_name 127.0.0.1:8000;

    location / {
        #resolver  8.8.8.8;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000; #JobApplicationSystem;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }

    location /static/ {
        alias /app/staticfiles/;
    }


    location /media/ {
        alias /app/mediafiles/;
    }
}

nginx docker file:

FROM nginx:1.21-alpine

RUN rm /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d

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KFSys
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August 24, 2022

Hi @aref20,

The error you are facing connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream is most often than not related to your Application or its configuration. This means Nginx is configured properly however the issue might be somewhere in Django’s config or code. It might be Gunicorn or Django’s config.

From the provided docker files, I don’t see anything wrong. I’ll suggest checking other error logs, of Gunicorn and Django on the exact error.

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