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I am setting up a Mastodon server on Docker on Ubuntu.

The server is up and running but when I try to access the site from a browser I get the error 502 Bad Gateway.

I have checked that ufw is permitting connections:

ufw status

And I checked that nginx is listening:

netstat -tnlp

Looking in the nginx error log I can see entries such as this one:

2020/07/01 06:47:59 [error] 11686#11686: *1 connect() failed (111:
Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client:
27.33.64.244, server: www.canberrasocial.net, request: "GET / HTTP/2.0", upstream: 
http://127.0.0.1:3000/", host: "www.canberrasocial.net"

I also confirmed that Docker is up and running though I see some unusual messages which I don't understand:

systemctl status docker

I'm fairly new to linux admin so my apologies if this is a dumb question, but I'm really stumped as to how to resolve this issue. Hope somebody can help.

Mark Micallef
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  • 27.33.64.244 is your IP address. As for your problem, please see [What causes the 'Connection Refused' message?](https://serverfault.com/q/725262/126632). – Michael Hampton Jul 01 '20 at 15:31
  • Hi Michael. My IP address is 45.76.124.78. You can verify that by pinging the domain. In addition, it's the IP I use to ssh in to the server. That's why I mentioned the 27.33.64.244 address as being confusing for me. – Mark Micallef Jul 02 '20 at 00:49
  • 45.76.124.78 is the IP address of your vultr.com server. The other address is YOUR home address from TPG. – Michael Hampton Jul 02 '20 at 01:39
  • Ahh that makes sense! Sorry, I never thought to check my own home IP. I'll focus then on the connection refused. I did read the link you provided and I had previously allowed connection on the firewall with "ufw allow HTTP" and "ufw allow HTTPS" as one of the steps during the initial setup of my server. I'm a bit more hazy on the other possibility of no process listening as I thought Nginx was listening on :80 and :443 based on the netstat above? – Mark Micallef Jul 02 '20 at 01:48

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