I have an Express application, server listening on 3000 port. It is hosted on VPS, Ubuntu. When I open {VPS server ip}:3000
in browser, all is ok. But now I want to get access to the app at example.com
, that’s my domain name.
I’ve installed Nginx, enabled UFW. I edited file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf, now its contents is
user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;
events {
worker_connections 768;
# multi_accept on;
}
http {
##
# Basic Settings
##
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
# server_tokens off;
# server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
# server_name_in_redirect off;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
##
# SSL Settings
##
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
##
# Logging Settings
##
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
##
# Gzip Settings
##
gzip on;
# gzip_vary on;
# gzip_proxied any;
# gzip_comp_level 6;
# gzip_buffers 16 8k;
# gzip_http_version 1.1;
# gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
##
# Virtual Host Configs
##
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com[-->my real domain here<--];
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_pass http://[-->my real server ip here<--]:3000;
}
}
}
#mail {
# # See sample authentication script at:
# # http://wiki.nginx.org/ImapAuthenticateWithApachePhpScript
#
# # auth_http localhost/auth.php;
# # pop3_capabilities "TOP" "USER";
# # imap_capabilities "IMAP4rev1" "UIDPLUS";
#
# server {
# listen localhost:110;
# protocol pop3;
# proxy on;
# }
#
# server {
# listen localhost:143;
# protocol imap;
# proxy on;
# }
#}
nginx -t
says that syntax is ok. Then systemctl restart nginx
, it’s active.
When I open example.com
in a browser, my app is inavailable.
What should I check? What should I edit or restart or activate? Thx!
2
Answers
So, probably my experience can be useful. The
http
section of my nginx.conf isObviously, the lines
make all work. The single file in /sites-available folder has name 'myserver.config' and its full content is
I deleted all symbolic links from /sites-enabled which I created during the process of clarifying and created a new one with the command
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/myserver.config /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
That works. Here's not anything new but it confirms that the existing instructions are really workable.
You need to create a file in sites-enabled folder of your nginx folder ( /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ ).
And add proxy configuration of listening the request on post 80 ( or 443 if you have SSL certificates ) and proxypass it to http://127.0.0.1:3000/
And then try running nginx -t restart the nginx server.
Hope it helps you!!