[GLLUG] nginx oops!

[John Winters]

On 29/11/2020 13:46, MJ via GLLUG wrote:
[snip default configuration]

> upstream diaspora_server {
> server unix:/home/diaspora/diaspora/tmp/diaspora.sock;
> }

Ah - you're trying to use Nginx as a front-end to some kind of server 
software.

[snip]

> root /home/diaspora/diaspora/public;
> 
> client_max_body_size 5M;
> client_body_buffer_size 256K;
> 
> try_files $uri @diaspora;
> 
> location /assets/ {
> expires max;
> add_header Cache-Control public;
> }
> location @diaspora {
> proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
> proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
> proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
> proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
> proxy_redirect off;
> proxy_pass http://diaspora_server;
> }
> }

So you've told Nginx first to try serving files from 
/home/diaspora/diaspora/public, and if not found there to pass requests 
on to the diaspora server.  Is that server actually running and 
listening for requests?

John

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