You need to use nginx to proxy HTTP requests to whatever port unicorn is running on. In this specific case that is port 3000.

When you go to any website using a web browser by default http://website.com is actually just sending a request to the IP address at website.com on port 80. Likewise, when you go to https://website.com it is sending a request to that IP address at website.com on port 443.

So, in your case you have unicorn running on port 3000, and you need to get nginx to listen on port 80 and proxy all requests to port 3000.

1. SSH into your server
2. Edit the nginx config file nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

3. Replace everything in there with this:

   server {
   listen 80;
   
   location / {
           proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
               proxy_set_header Host $host;
               proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
               proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
           }
   }
   

4. Restart nginx service nginx restart

You should now be able to access your rails app at both 128.199.95.219 and assuming you have an A record for YOUR_WEBSITE.COM pointed to 128.199.95.219 then you should also be able to access the app at http://YOUR_WEBSITE.COM

Hope this helps!