So I’m just getting started with selfhosting things, and I have a minor problem which I’m having some trouble solving, as I keep getting a connection refused error when trying to connect:

send() failed (111: Connection refused) while resolving, resolver: 127.0.0.1:53

I run a jellyfin server on a NUC - it works well and is accessible on the private network. I want to have a public URL for this server - and other stuff, eventually.

Here’s my setup

  • I have a subdomain - jellyfin.mydomain.com - pointed to the external IP for my router
  • I have the router set up to allow remote access, and port forwarding directing all port 80 traffic to my public ip > port 80 on the server
  • On my server - running ubuntu - I installed nginx
  • I used the official jellyfin nginx config for access from a subdomain
  • I edited the server_name variable to match my subdomain

Now, whenever I access the subdomain in a browser I get a 502 Bad Gateway error. The /var/lof/nginx/error.logshows:

2024/05/10 08:26:37 [error] 95335#95335: send() failed (111: Connection refused) while resolving, resolver: 127.0.0.1:53
2024/05/10 08:26:37 [error] 95335#95335: send() failed (111: Connection refused) while resolving, resolver: 127.0.0.1:53
2024/05/10 08:26:42 [error] 95335#95335: send() failed (111: Connection refused) while resolving, resolver: 127.0.0.1:53
2024/05/10 08:26:47 [error] 95335#95335: send() failed (111: Connection refused) while resolving, resolver: 127.0.0.1:53
2024/05/10 08:26:52 [error] 95335#95335: send() failed (111: Connection refused) while resolving, resolver: 127.0.0.1:53
2024/05/10 08:26:57 [error] 95335#95335: send() failed (111: Connection refused) while resolving, resolver: 127.0.0.1:53
2024/05/10 08:27:02 [error] 95335#95335: send() failed (111: Connection refused) while resolving, resolver: 127.0.0.1:53
2024/05/10 08:27:07 [error] 95335#95335: *69 jellyfin could not be resolved (110: Operation timed out), client: 193.29.107.173, server: jellyfin.mysubdomain.com, request: "GET /web/ HTTP/1.1", host: "jellyfin.mysubdomain.com"

I have almost no experience with networking, linux, or nginx :D So I am sure the problem is obvious to someone else…

Can you help?

  • Pete90@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I’d be very careful to publicly host Jellyfin. Although not necessarily true, it basically advertises that you’re pirating content while also giving out your IP. Even if you rip your own media, this can still be illegal. Please be careful.

    Maybe you can put it behind some authentication or, even better, a VPN.

  • Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Hello 👋

    You need to edit the below lines

    set $jellyfin jellyfin;
resolver 127.0.0.1 valid=30s;

    To look like the below

    set $jellyfin 127.0.0.1;
#resolver 127.0.0.1 valid=30s;

    Edited after reading the full config

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    IP Internet Protocol
    NAT Network Address Translation
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.

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