nginx unknown directive “upstream”

Question

I\'m using nginx as a proxy server to forward requests onto my gunicorn server. When I run sudo nginx -t -c /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mysite I get the following erro

Answer 1

I am using nginx version: nginx/1.4.1 on EC2 Ubuntu. I was getting this error:

nginx: [emerg] "upstream" directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

To get my instance running I had to wrap the upstream and server sections in an http { } section. It then complained about missing event section. So I added that as follows:

events { worker_connections 1024; }

It worked fine after those fixes, this is my first effort so I was guessing my way through.