Hi, I’ve been following this tutorial
I’m stuck on Configuring Nginx to Proxy Requests.
Nginx error logs: 2021/04/23 18:08:01 [error] 115757#115757: *4 upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from upstream, client: 80.5.115.86, server: sub.mysite.comm, request: “GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1”, upstream: “http://unix:/root/text_generator/textgen.sock/favicon.ico”, host: “www.sub.mysite.com”, referrer: “http://www.sub.mysite.com/”
In the browser my IP address page shows a “Welcome to nginx!” message and my website returns 504 Gateway Time-out nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu).
Thanks in advance I’m very stuck!
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Heya,
It seems that your issue might be related to the upstream Gunicorn server timing out. To get past this problem, try the following steps:
- Check your Gunicorn server and ensure it’s running properly. Make sure to test your Flask application using Gunicorn without Nginx as a proxy. The command should look like:
- gunicorn --bind unix:/root/text_generator/textgen.sock yourapp:wsgi --timeout 120
-
Ensure there’re no typos or syntax errors in your Nginx configuration file. Pay close attention to the
locationblock and the path that theproxy_passdirective is pointing to. -
Restart the services - After making any necessary changes, restart both Gunicorn and Nginx using the commands:
- sudo systemctl restart gunicorn
- sudo systemctl restart nginx
For more information about configuring Gunicorn and Nginx, refer to this DigitalOcean tutorial: How To Serve Flask Applications with Gunicorn and Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04.
Hope that this helps!
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