Connection reset by peer error !!

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 02:04:45PM +0500, shahzaib shahzaib wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>          We're using nginx as reverse proxy in front of apache and
> following error occurs most of the time :
> 
> 2014/06/02 01:00:28 [error] 3288#0: *6492138 recv() failed (104: Connection
> reset by peer) while reading response header from upstream, client:
> 141.0.10.83, server: domain.com, request: "GET /rss/recent HTTP/1.1",
> upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:7172/rss/recent", host: "domain.com"

[...]

Your upstream server isn't working properly, and resets 
connections.  There is more or less nothing to do on nginx side, 
try looking into the upstream server instead.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/