Hi, I’m new to diaspora (also Ruby on Rails), and I wanted to set up a pod, but I’m having some trouble getting it to work. Specifically, I get a ‘connection refused’ message when clients attempt to connect, and open port check tools say that the port is closed.
I am using a server with a freshly installed Ubuntu 18.04, nginx, and postgres, and otherwise sticking to the steps in the wiki guide for Ubuntu 16.04. My iptables were empty, but I went ahead and enabled ufw and added explicit allow rules for all ports remotely relevant then restarted the services (no change). My server is sitting behind a router, and it has port forwarding set up for port 443 (also my ssh port, which is fine). I used tcpdump to monitor incoming connections on port 443, and I can indeed see them reaching the server.
I don’t see anything in the server logs (checked /var/log/nginx/ and diaspora/logs). No new entries for any attempted connections. I confirmed that both nginx and scripts/server are running without errors. I tried listing the ports where a service was listening, and saw nginx as expected ( lsof -i -P -n | grep LISTEN
).
It’s like the server is just ignoring the requests for some reason. I’m not sure what the next step is to troubleshoot this. Can anyone help?
Thanks!
EDIT: I figured it out with the help of someone! The nginx configuration file was only listening on ipv6, and not ipv4. Apparently the nginx configuration file at : https://gist.github.com/jhass/1355430 , as linked in the wiki, doesn’t listen on ipv4 with current nginx. Specifically, this listen directive:
listen [::]:443 ssl;
is ipv6 only, which is what was causing me problems.