Re: nginx refusing connection on port 443

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Le Wed, 25 Aug 2021 21:25:03 -0700,
crodges <crodges@csphy.pw> a écrit :

> Hello everybody,
> 
> I'm setting up a guix vps and having some trouble, mainly because I'm
> getting used to the guix way. After a few tries, I finally got a
> let's encrypt certificate and nginx configured to read it. Problem
> is, nginx accepts fine connections on port 80, but when I try 443 I
> get
> 
> curl: (7) Failed to connect to lambdashire.com port 443 after 5249
> ms: Connection refused
> 
> My first thought was to open port 443 on the firewall, but I don't
> know how to do that and didn't find how to in a few configuration
> examples I searched. Is this the right approach, to open the port? If
> it is, can you please point me to some documentation so I can try to
> figure out myself?
> 
> First time posting. Thanks.

Hi crodges,

Could you share your configuration? Especially the part where you
declare the nginx-service-type? There is a listen field that you should
set to something like:

(listen '("443 ssl http2" "[::]:443 ssl http2"))

of course, you can adapt it to your needs using the Nginx syntax.