Can't connect to nginx server from public IP Address

Question

Hi I have a nginx server running on a linux machine. I can connect it to from localhost using curl -v http://localhost:8080 fine. But can't connect it to using curl -v http://<machine-ip>:8080, or from browsers in some other machine.

The config file is

server {
        listen 8080;
        listen [::]:8080;

        root /var/www/html;

        index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        server_name _;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }
    }

Port 8080 is being listened to on IPv4 and IPv6, as sudo netstat -tulpn | grep nginx gives

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8080            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      123495/nginx: maste
tcp6       0      0 :::8080                 :::*                    LISTEN      123495/nginx: maste

The firewall is down, as doing sudo ufw status tell status: inactive. I have looked at a lot of answers on various stack exchange sites, but can't figure out the issue. Would appreciate any help. TIA.

Solution

The error was that the port was not open from the Azure side. Follow this to allow incoming traffic on port 8080 as described here, reboot the machine and it works fine now.

Comments

[LTPCGO]

Is the other machine on the same network or behind a router?

[Deepak Saini]

Hi @Prithwi, no error is logged. reload nginx and restart nginx doesn't seem to work