By saiq918
I’m using Digital Ocean’s One-Click Install Apps feature to simplify starting a VM with Ruby on Rails pre-installed.
Right off the bat, it generates \home\rails\rails_project as a starter Ruby on Rails web application to verify everything is running like normal.
However, I want to build a separate Ruby on Rails web application project within the home directory and initialize rails server there instead of the pre-configured \home\rails\rails_project
I’ve edited /etc/nginx/sites-available/rails and /etc/unicorn.conf to point to my new project directory. I’ve also restarted nginx service, restarted unicorn service, but when I start rails server, I keep getting a 502 Bad Gateway or ‘This site can’t be reached’ error when I attempt development mode with :3000. I don’t have a problem when I restore to default values, bundle install in \home\rails\rails_project and start rails server there.
Is there a step I’m missing?
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I would check this:
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Ownership and permission of your new project directory (chown -R rails.rails)
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Check the unicorn log for clues (/var/log/unicorn/unicorn.log)
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