How to Fix Nginx Rate Limiting Throwing 503 Instead of 429 to End Users
You've set up Nginx's rate limiting to protect an endpoint from abuse, and it's working — but rate-limited clients see a 503 Service Unavailable instead of the...
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Nginx
Fixes for reverse proxy errors, SSL configuration, and caching issues in Nginx.
How to Fix Nginx WebSockets "Connection: Upgrade" Header Dropped Behind Load Balancer
WebSocket connections work fine when testing directly against Nginx, but fail once a load balancer (ALB, ELB, or another reverse proxy) sits in front of it....
How to Fix Nginx 502 Bad Gateway on AWS ALB / CloudFront Upstream Connection
Nginx returns 502 errors specifically when deployed behind AWS Application Load Balancer or CloudFront, even though the same Nginx configuration works fine...
How to Fix Nginx Proxying to Next.js App Router Returning Static Assets 404
Your Next.js app works fine in local development, but once deployed behind Nginx, CSS, JS chunks, and other static assets return 404 while the actual pages...
How to Fix Nginx SSL Certificate net::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID After Certbot Run
The browser rejects your site's certificate with a common name mismatch error, even though you just ran Certbot and it reported success. This means the...
How to Fix Nginx Rate Limiting Throwing 503 Instead of 429 to End Users
You've set up Nginx's rate limiting to protect an endpoint from abuse, and it's working — but rate-limited clients see a 503 Service Unavailable instead of the...
How to Fix Nginx WebSockets "Connection: Upgrade" Header Dropped Behind Load Balancer
WebSocket connections work fine when testing directly against Nginx, but fail once a load balancer (ALB, ELB, or another reverse proxy) sits in front of it....
How to Fix "Nginx 502 Bad Gateway" Error With PHP-FPM or Node.js
Nginx returns a 502 error page instead of your application's response, which means Nginx itself is running fine but couldn't get a valid response from whatever...
How to Resolve "Nginx 413 Request Entity Too Large" Upload Error
A file upload that should work fails immediately with a 413 status instead of reaching your application code at all. Nginx rejects request bodies larger than...