NGINX not binding to localhost:80 only 127.0.0.1:80

[Bill Culp]

lsof says NGINX is listening on localhost

nginx     3315           root    8u  IPv4 0xfd9b22b8ee1eac23      0t0    TCP localhost:http (LISTEN)

When I run another web server on that port localhost works fine but not with this NGINX config.

#user  nobody;
worker_processes  1;

#error_log  logs/error.log;
#error_log  logs/error.log  notice;
error_log  var/log/nginx/error.log  info;

pid        var/log/nginx/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    
    #######################################
    #   Perl ImageMagick Resize
    #perl_modules perl/lib; 
  	#perl_require resize.pm; 
 
	#server {
	#	location / {
	#  		root /var/www;
	#  		if (!-f $request_filename) {
	#			rewrite ^(.*)(.jpg|.JPG|.gif|.GIF|.png|.PNG)$ /resize$1$2 last; 
	#  		} 
	#	} 
	
	#	location /resize {
	#	  perl resize::handler; 
	#	} 
	#} 
	################################ End Perl Image Resize

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    #gzip  on;

    server {
        listen       localhost:80;
        server_name  localhost;

        #charset koi8-r;

        access_log  var/log/nginx/host.access.log  main;

        location / {
            root   share/nginx/html;
            index  index.html index.htm;
        }

        #error_page  404              /404.html;

        # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
        #
        error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
            root   share/nginx/html;
        }

        # proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
        #
        #location ~ \.php$ {
        #    proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1;
        #}

        # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
        #
        #location ~ \.php$ {
        #    root           share/nginx/html;
        #    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        #    fastcgi_index  index.php;
        #    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /scripts$fastcgi_script_name;
        #    include        fastcgi_params;
        #}

        # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
        # concurs with nginx's one
        #
        #location ~ /\.ht {
        #    deny  all;
        #}
    }


    # another virtual host using mix of IP-, name-, and port-based configuration
    #
    #server {
    #    listen       8000;
    #    listen       somename:8080;
    #    server_name  somename  alias  another.alias;

    #    location / {
    #        root   share/nginx/html;
    #        index  index.html index.htm;
    #    }
    #}


    # HTTPS server
    #
    #server {
    #    listen       443;
    #    server_name  localhost;

    #    ssl                  on;
    #    ssl_certificate      cert.pem;
    #    ssl_certificate_key  cert.key;

    #    ssl_session_timeout  5m;

    #    ssl_protocols  SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1;
    #    ssl_ciphers  HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
    #    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers   on;

    #    location / {
    #        root   share/nginx/html;
    #        index  index.html index.htm;
    #    }
    #}

}
On Dec 20, 2012, at 1:10 PM, Jonathan Matthews <contact at jpluscplusm.com> wrote:

> On 20 December 2012 20:41, Bill Culp <bill.culp at me.com> wrote:
>> Ive had this issue with tomcat apache in the past and always fixed it by specifying localhost as part of the listen directive - not working with NGINX on OS X.
>> 
>> NGINX is responding to 127.0.0.1 - but localhost it just drops the connection (its not refusing the connection, just dropping it)…
>> 
>> Is there a way to fix this I have tried listen *:80, listen localhost:80  and still I cant reach it through the browser using localhost.
>> 
>> localhost is resolvable with ping and has its entry in the hosts file.
> 
> Posting your configuration would probably help people diagnose your
> issue more easily ...
> 
> Jonathan
> 
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