NGINX and UWSGI not communicating

Question

I'm very new to NGINX, or setting up a server in general. I'm going through the tutorial http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorials/Django_and_nginx.html with a website I'm trying to set up. I'm getting to the point in the tutorial where you use sockets, however, I can't get the socket to work. nginx.conf looks like this.

# the upstream component nginx needs to connect to
upstream django {
    server unix:///home/althor/projects/Freebooks/freebooks.sock; # for a file socket
    # server 127.0.0.1:8001; # for a web port socket (we'll use this first)
}

# configuration of the server
server {
    # the port your site will be served on
    listen      8000;
    # the domain name it will serve for
    server_name 10.0.0.130; # substitute your machine's IP address or FQDN
    charset     utf-8;

    # max upload size
    client_max_body_size 75M;   # adjust to taste

    # Django media
    location /media  {
        alias /home/althor/projects/FreeBooks/media;  # your Django project's media                   files - amend as required  
}

location /static {
   alias /home/althor/projects/FreeBooks/static; # your Django project's static files -          amend as required
}

# Finally, send all non-media requests to the Django server.
location / {
    uwsgi_pass  django;
    include     /home/althor/projects/FreeBooks/uwsgi_params; # the uwsgi_params file you installed
}

}

The command i'm doing is this:

uwsgi --socket freebooks.sock --module FreeBooks.wsgi --chmod-socket=664

My File structure looks like this

-home -projects -FreeBooks freebooks_nginx.conf freebooks.sock= -FreeBooks wsgi

I'm not getting any type of error. When I go to 10.0.0.130, all I get is the welcome to nginx thing, same for 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1. Except when I got to port 8000 where I get a bad nginx gateway. Any help would be very much appreciated.

Did you got the answer, if so please let me know how did you solved it, Because i am having the same problem — Shiva
I'm sorry I forgot to pick an answer. The issue was that nginx didn't have permission to write to the socket. — user133688

Emma Emma · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-03T06:25:09

remove your "upstream django" line and replace your uwsgi_pass line with uwsgi_pass unix:///home/althor/projects/Freebooks/freebooks.sock;

so that your file looks like

server {
    listen      8000;
    server_name 10.0.0.130; # substitute your machine's IP address or FQDN
    charset     utf-8;

    client_max_body_size 75M;   # adjust to taste

    location /media  {
        alias /home/althor/projects/FreeBooks/media;
    }

    location /static {
        alias /home/althor/projects/FreeBooks/static;
    }

    location / {
        include /home/althor/projects/FreeBooks/uwsgi_params;
        uwsgi_pass  unix:///home/althor/projects/Freebooks/freebooks.sock;
    }
}

Also make sure the socket file actually gets created when you run uwsgi command and that it is readable by the user running nginx (the properties are right but does the user have access to the full path?)

NGINX and UWSGI not communicating

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