How to ensure nginx serves a request from an external IP?
- by Matt
I have a strange situation, where my nginx setup stopped handling external requests. I'm pretty stuck. If I hit the domain without a subdomain, I properly get redirected, however, if I request the full url, that fails and doesn't log anything, anywhere. I am able to curl localhost on the server itself, however when I attempt to curl from an external machine, it fails with:
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
I've also noticed that bots can get through, I've seen Google hit the log every now and then.
My nginx.conf file:
upstream mongrels {
server 127.0.0.1:5000;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name culini.com;
rewrite ^/(.*) http://www.culini.com/$1 permanent;
}
# the server directive is nginx's virtual host directive.
server {
# port to listen on. Can also be set to an IP:PORT
listen 80;
# Set the max size for file uploads to 50Mb
client_max_body_size 50M;
# sets the domain[s] that this vhost server requests for
server_name www.culini.com;
# doc root
root /var/www/culini/current/public;
log_format app '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
'"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for" [$upstream_addr $upstream_response_time $upstream_status]';
# vhost specific access log
access_log /var/www/culini/current/log/nginx.access.log app;
error_log /var/www/culini/current/log/nginx.error.log debug;
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect false;
proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;
proxy_intercept_errors on;
proxy_ignore_client_abort on;
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
if (!-f $request_filename) {
proxy_pass http://mongrels;
break;
}
}
}
Please, please, any help would be greatly appreciated.
