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andrew
Asked: 2011-06-11 07:35:29 +0800 CST

nginx configuration - make accessible from outside localhost

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I have this in my nginx.conf

server {
      listen 80;
      server_name localhost;
      root /opt/myapp/public;
      passenger_enabled on;
}

The problem is I can access the webapp from the computer on which it's running, but not from any other computer in the network. Any ideas?

Running on CentOS 5.6

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    'server_name localhost' makes nginx require the Host header to be 'localhost', ie require that the client is trying to reach it using 'http://localhost' and thus only work on localhost itself :-).

    Either do not enter a server_name, or use one that the other hosts will recognize it with (fqdn, IP etc).

    http://wiki.nginx.org/VirtualHostExample

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  2. It should be listening on all interfaces with that config, you can check if it's indeed listening on all interfaces with the following command

    netstat -aln | grep 80

    The result should look like this (Taken from one of my servers)

    tcp    0      0 0.0.0.0:80           0.0.0.0:*            LISTEN

    If that matches, you should check if you have a firewall enabled on the server, if so you need to open TCP port 80 on it.

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