Deploy node.js application to nginx

Question

I have a node.js backend application running on port 1337 and i want to deploy it to my nginx server so i can get access to my backend from another computer and other netwroks. i tried this in sites_availables and i enabled this configuration :

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name x.x.x.x(my server adrress);

    location /node {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:1337;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }
}

then i restarted nginx

sudo service nginx restart

now i'm trying to reach xxxx/node through my browser and i get 501 bad getaway.

Answer 1

The reverse proxy pipe from nginx to node is being broken because your path in the nginx config /node does not exist on your node application. You either need to implement that route, or do a rewrite to have nginx rewrite the path when proxying (check out this question: https://serverfault.com/questions/586586/nginx-redirect-via-proxy-rewrite-and-preserve-url )