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I’m trying to set up Nginx with my Docker containers. I want to route the standard listening port 80 to the port where my Docker runs my Django app.

server {

  listen 80;

  location / {
    proxy_pass        https://127.0.0.1:5000;
    proxy_redirect    default;
    proxy_set_header  Host $host;
    proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
  }

docker-compose proxies my app from port 5001 to 5000:


version: '3.7'

services:

  app:
    build:
      context: ./app
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    volumes:
      - './app:/usr/src/app'
    ports:
      - 5001:5000
    environment:
      ...
    depends_on:
      - db

  ...

  nginx:
      build:
        context: ./app/nginx
        dockerfile: Dockerfile
      restart: always
      ports:
        - 80:80
      depends_on:
        - app

I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.

If you navigate to localhost:5001, the app works (it runs on port 5000).

But if you try localhost without specifying a port, you hit a 502 error on Nginx.

Here is a guide to Nginx, but I haven’t found the solution to my problem yet.

Edit: I figured it out.
You need to give NGinx the name of your service.

server {

  listen 80;

  location / {
    proxy_pass        https://app:5000; // change this line
    proxy_redirect    default;
    proxy_set_header  Host $host;
    proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
  }