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Unable to Reverse Proxy Nginx - 502 error
- Posted February 19, 2015
I am trying to reverse proxy my ghost blog so that port 80 redirects to port 2368. However, reaching the site at port 80 gives me a 502 Bad Gateway error.
This is a manual install of ghost on a Debian system.
I am running in production with pm2. I am able to connect to port 2368.
My conf file on nginx/conf.d/ reads:
server {
listen 80;
server_name levity.io;
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2368;
}
}
My conf.js file for ghost reads:
// # Ghost Configuration
// Setup your Ghost install for various environments
// Documentation can be found at http://support.ghost.org/config/
var path = require('path'),
config;
config = {
// ### Production
// When running Ghost in the wild, use the production environment
// Configure your URL and mail settings here
production: {
url: 'http://levity.io',
mail: {},
database: {
client: 'sqlite3',
connection: {
filename: path.join(__dirname, '/content/data/ghost.db')
},
debug: false
},
server: {
// Host to be passed to node's `net.Server#listen()`
host: '104.236.114.240',
// Port to be passed to node's `net.Server#listen()`, for iisnode set this to `process.env.PORT`
port: '2368'
}
},
// ### Development **(default)**
development: {
// The url to use when providing links to the site, E.g. in RSS and email.
// Change this to your Ghost blogs published URL.
url: 'http://localhost:2368',
// Example mail config
// Visit http://support.ghost.org/mail for instructions
// ```
// mail: {
// transport: 'SMTP',
// options: {
// service: 'Mailgun',
// auth: {
// user: '', // mailgun username
// pass: '' // mailgun password
// }
// }
// },
// ```
database: {
client: 'sqlite3',
connection: {
filename: path.join(__dirname, '/content/data/ghost-dev.db')
},
debug: false
},
server: {
// Host to be passed to node's `net.Server#listen()`
host: '127.0.0.1',
// Port to be passed to node's `net.Server#listen()`, for iisnode set this to `process.env.PORT`
port: '2368'
},
paths: {
contentPath: path.join(__dirname, '/content/')
}
},
// **Developers only need to edit below here**
// ### Testing
// Used when developing Ghost to run tests and check the health of Ghost
// Uses a different port number
testing: {
url: 'http://127.0.0.1:2369',
database: {
client: 'sqlite3',
connection: {
filename: path.join(__dirname, '/content/data/ghost-test.db')
}
},
server: {
host: '127.0.0.1',
port: '2369'
},
logging: false
},
// ### Testing MySQL
// Used by Travis - Automated testing run through GitHub
'testing-mysql': {
url: 'http://127.0.0.1:2369',
database: {
client: 'mysql',
connection: {
host : '127.0.0.1',
user : 'root',
password : '',
database : 'ghost_testing',
charset : 'utf8'
}
},
server: {
host: '127.0.0.1',
port: '2369'
},
logging: false
},
// ### Testing pg
// Used by Travis - Automated testing run through GitHub
'testing-pg': {
url: 'http://127.0.0.1:2369',
database: {
client: 'pg',
connection: {
host : '127.0.0.1',
user : 'postgres',
password : '',
database : 'ghost_testing',
charset : 'utf8'
}
},
server: {
host: '127.0.0.1',
port: '2369'
},
logging: false
}
};
// Export config
module.exports = config;
Checking the nginx error logs, I find these messages:
2015/02/19 06:25:10 [error] 23331#0: *13 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 70.36.197.234, server: levity.io, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:2368/", host: "levity.io"
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What’s the exact command you are using to start Ghost?
It looks like you Nginx configuration is good. Make sure it’s using
--productionor thatNODE_ENV=productionis set. Also update the host configuration for your production block to listen on127.0.0.1Then restart Ghost. If you’re still seeing not connecting correctly, could you share the output of
sudo netstat -plunt?