Discussion on: Nginx: Everything about proxy_pass

[Peters Chikezie]

Hi Daniel,

It's a formating issue.

[Daniel Albuschat]

Hm... looks correct, though. Maybe the error lies elsewhere?

[Peters Chikezie]

Any idea where to look?

I have two sites enabled. The default nginx site running on port 80 and my API site running on a different port.

[Daniel Albuschat]

Oh, then you forgot to provide the correct port in the URL. What you posted uses the default port 80, so it uses the default nginx site. Use http://127.0.0.1:<you-port>/foo/bar

[Peters Chikezie]

I actually have the correct port in the file. The one I posted here is just an example. The IP is different

[Peters Chikezie]

Hi Daniel,

Here is how the site looks

upstream backend {
 server 192.168.34.23:3000;
}
server {
        listen 5000 default_server;
        listen [::]:5000 default_server;

        root /var/www/html;
        index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        server_name http://example.com;

         location / {
                proxy_pass http://backend/;
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }
}

[Peters Chikezie]

i am thinking, could the root there be the problem?

[Peters Chikezie]

I have removed it and it's still the same thing.

[Peters Chikezie]

Hi again Daniel,

I have been able to solve it.

I had to comment this line in the location

location / {
                proxy_pass http://backend/;
                #try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }

Thanks for your time. It's really appreciated