I use shiny server to build a web-app on port 3838, when i use nginx in my server it works well. But when I stop nginx on my server and try to use docker nginx, I find the site comes to a '502-Bad Gate Way' error and nginx log shows:
2016/04/28 18:51:15 [error] 8#8: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, ...
I install docker-nginx by this command:
sudo docker pull nginx
My docker command line is something like (for clear i add some indent):
sudo docker run --name docker-nginx -p 80:80
-v ~/docker-nginx/default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
-v /usr/share/nginx/html:/usr/share/nginx/html nginx
I create a folder name 'docker-nginx' in my home dir, move my nginx conf file in this folder, and then remove my original conf in etc/nginx dir just in case.
My nginx conf file looks like this:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
# listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html index.htm;
# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
server_name localhost;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3838/;
proxy_redirect http://127.0.0.1:3838/ $scheme://$host/;
auth_basic "Username and Password are required";
auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/.htpasswd;
# enhance the performance
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
proxy_set_header Host $host;
}
}
You have to define upstream directly. Currently your nginx can not proxy to your web application.
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html
upstream backend {
server backend1.example.com weight=5;
server backend2.example.com:8080;
server unix:/tmp/backend3;
server backup1.example.com:8080 backup;
server backup2.example.com:8080 backup;
}
server {
location / {
proxy_pass http://backend;
}
}