By raymond53892
I’ve currently got a Flask server running via Nginx + Gunicorn on a droplet, and a client website hosted on another hosting provider which connects to the Flask server via a subdomain (api.mydomain.com). Is it possible to serve the NextJS website from the same droplet at the root domain (mydomain.com)? If so, how can this be achieved using Nginx?
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Hi,
That’s doable. You’d create a new server block in Nginx for mydomain.com just like you have created for api.mydomain.com and configure the NextJS location block as described on their site:
https://github.com/zeit/next.js/wiki/Deployment-on-Nginx’s-reverse-proxy
Cheers
Hey, thanks for replying!
I’ve followed the instructions on that link, and now I think there’s an issue with the NextJS server not running correctly. I start the server using pm2 start npm --name "next" -- start
But I’m getting this error in the nginx logs.
connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, server: mydomain.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:3000/", host: "mydomain.com"
Is there anything else I need to do to get it to work?
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