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nginx 502 Bad Gateway

1.0 502 Bad Gateway

nginx 502 Bad Gateway

After the update of Linux on the web server, the website would not open in the browser. Instead the following error was displayed.

502 Bad Gateway
nginx/1.14.0

2.0 Solution

First we check the nginx server.

$ systemctl status nginx
● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2019-03-21 15:16:47 UTC; 16h ago
     Docs: man:nginx(8)
 Main PID: 1354 (nginx)
    Tasks: 8 (limit: 1158)
   CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service
           ├─1354 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on;
           └─1355 nginx: worker process

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Analyzing the NGINX web server log file

1.0 Introduction

Given an nginx web server log file, we might like to know who are the visitors to our website. One can go line by line through the log file, but that is tedious. It would be nice if we can get one line per client visiting the website, giving the IP address of the visitor and how many times that client has visited.… Read more

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nginx 502 Bad Gateway Error

PROBLEM

A routine software update on the server running nginx was done. After that the website stopped opening in the browser window and 502 Bad Gateway error along with the nginx version number was displayed. Looking in the log file showed an entry like,

2014/06/26 11:09:53 [crit] 2539#0: *15 connect() to unix:/tmp/php-fpm.sock failed (13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: www.example.com, request: "GET /foo HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/tmp/php-fpm.sock:", host: "www.example.com"

SOLUTION

The problem was solved after the following lines were un-commented in the file, /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

listen.owner = www-data
listen.group = www-data

The same file, /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf, had the lines

user = www-data
group = www-data

Also, the nginx configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf had the user and group settings,

user  www-data www-data;

See also

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Nginx installation and configuration

The configuration is nginx HTTP server, PHP FastCGI Process Manager (PHP-FPM), and the Alternative PHP Cache (APC).

Installation

The first step is to download the nginx software from the Nginx website. If using the Ubuntu distribution, following are the steps,

(i) Download the nginx signing keys from the Nginx website,

$ wget http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key

(ii) Add this key to the apt keyring,

$ sudo apt-key add nginx_signing.key

(iii) Add the following lines at the end of the file, /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ version-code nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ version-code nginx

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