My server went down today and after restarting, it came up with a “Nginx 502 Bad Gateway” message. At first I thought its something related to the Nginx service, so restarted the nginx service but immediately realized it wasn’t the case.
Nginx receives a request on port 80 and it then proxies the request to ‘localhost’ on port 8080 (in my case) where another service is configured on it. If no service is listening on port 8080, it results in a ‘Nginx 502 Bad gateway’ message. I immediately realized it was the Java service binded on port 8080 of my server and started it.
# java -jar /home/user/test.jar
The website was online immediately.
The Nginx proxy port is defined in the Nginx configuration file and different services could be binded to the proxy port depending on your setup. It could be
1) PHP-fpm
2) php_cgi
3) FastCGI
OR could be something else. You have to start the service listening on the proxy port to get your website/application online.
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