Setup: Passenger with Nginx for a rails app on EC2

[gau...@pracly.com]

Struggling with this setup.

I followed the guide at https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/walkthroughs/deploy/ruby/aws/nginx/oss/trusty/deploy_app.html

Following is the output of a few commands which may help diagnose the problem.

curl http://XX.XX.XX.XX/

curl: (7) Failed to connect to XX.XX.XX.XX port 80: Connection timed out

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passenger-config validate-install

 * Checking whether this Passenger install is in PATH... ✓

 * Checking whether there are no other Passenger installations... ✓

Everything looks good. :-)

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passenger-status

Version : 5.0.30

Date    : 2016-08-10 12:16:10 +0530

Instance: j0dyUwbr (nginx/1.10.1 Phusion_Passenger/5.0.30)

Phusion Passenger is currently not serving any applications.

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Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Camden Narzt]

How did you start nginx? What does your nginx config look like?

Cam

[gau...@pracly.com]

Just like the guide said, I put this in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/myapp.conf

server {

    listen 80;

    server_name yourserver.com;

    # Tell Nginx and Passenger where your app's 'public' directory is

    root /var/www/myapp/code/public;

    # Turn on Passenger

    passenger_enabled on;

    passenger_ruby /path-to-ruby;

}

replaced yourserver.com with the IP of my EC2 instance, /var/www/myapp/code/public with the path of my app's public directory and /path-to-ruby with the path of my rvm ruby installation as seen by running the command passenger-config about ruby-command

and then did 

sudo service nginx restart

I have since restarted nginx multiple times (doing some trial and error) and also restarted the instance a couple of times. 

Appreciate your help, thanks :)

[gau...@pracly.com]

After spending hours playing around with nginx and passenger config, I found the problem.. my security group in ec2 didn't have port 80 open for incoming requests :/ 

So silly!!