From 418bfbf494504228111db20c3439d8bf80ad0c5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tobi <31960611+tsmethurst@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:07:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [docs] Update nginx docs to use 127.0.0.1 instead of
 localhost (#1264)

Lots of these were appearing:

```
*459 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream
```

This change resolves it, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/52550758
---
 docs/installation_guide/nginx.md | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/installation_guide/nginx.md b/docs/installation_guide/nginx.md
index 434eeadcf..bbf12b050 100644
--- a/docs/installation_guide/nginx.md
+++ b/docs/installation_guide/nginx.md
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ server {
   listen [::]:80;
   server_name example.org;
   location / {
-    proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
+    # set to 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost to work around https://stackoverflow.com/a/52550758
+    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
     proxy_set_header Host $host;
     proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
     proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ server {
 }
 ```
 
-Change `proxy_pass` to the ip and port that you're actually serving GoToSocial on and change `server_name` to your own domain name.
+Change `proxy_pass` to the ip and port that you're actually serving GoToSocial on (if it's not on `127.0.0.1:8080`), and change `server_name` to your own domain name.
 
 If your domain name is `example.org` then `server_name example.org;` would be the correct value.
 
@@ -152,7 +153,8 @@ If you open the NGINX config again, you'll see that Certbot added some extra lin
 server {
   server_name example.org;
   location / {
-    proxy_pass http://localhost:8080/;
+    # set to 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost to work around https://stackoverflow.com/a/52550758
+    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
     proxy_set_header Host $host;
     proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
     proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";