nginx not listening to port 80

Question

I\'ve just installed a Ubuntu 12.04 server and nginx 1.2.7, removed default from sites-enabled and added my own file into sites-available and symli

Answer 1

While we all think we don't make silly mistakes, we do.

So, if you are looking into NGINX issues and all signs are showing it should work then you should take a step away from the files and look downstream.

System Firewall, Hardware Firewall, Nat router/firewall.

For myself this issue was my router, I run a home lab and so I can access services behind my router from afar I use NGINX to reverse proxy as my router only handles incoming based on IP and doesn't do any handling of hostnames, I'm sure this is all fairly normal.

In any case my issue cropped up as I was securing my network a few days ago, removing some port forwarding that isnt needed any longer and I accidentally removed port 80.

Yes it was as simple as forwarding that port again to NGINX and all was fixed.

I will now walk away with my head hung in extreme shame though I leave this answer to show my gratitude to the people in this thread that lead me to find my own error.

So thank you.