Mern stack droplet when connecting to stripe webhooks gets a pending, then response is a 504. Do I need to change the mongod.conf file?

Hi all, I think I’ve figured out why I can’t get a response back from Stripe. It works locally which was my first clue. I can hit Stripe, but times out in response. Following is my error log when attempting to make a transaction via stripe. Any pearls of wisdom would be greatly appreciated!

2024/06/26 15:32:29 [error] 25994#25994: *9 upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from upstream, client: 24.193.166.172, server: outdoors.rest, request: "POST /api/membership/membership_create HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:5050/api/membership/membership_create", host: "outdoors.rest", referrer: "https://outdoors.rest/"

When I was following instructions to add Mongo to my droplet the below was stated:

Also, note that the database is running on port 27017 on 127.0.0.1, the local loopback address representing localhost. This is MongoDB’s default port number.

I followed the MongoDB docs below but it didn’t make a difference.

# Update the bindIp configuration to allow external connections

# network interfaces

net:

port: 27017

bindIp: 0.0.0.0

I also don’t have a PORT configured in my .env file server wise, so it defaults to 5050.