{"id":5287,"date":"2020-08-27T14:38:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T09:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:18:15","slug":"how-to-troubleshoot-502-bad-gateway-error-in-nginx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/how-to-troubleshoot-502-bad-gateway-error-in-nginx\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Troubleshoot 502 Bad Gateway Error in Nginx"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every time when we browse a site, then the webserver receives the request and processes it, and sends back the requested resources including the HTTP header and HTTP status code. 502 Bad gateway is the server-side error and it happens when a server that acts as a gateway or proxy received an invalid response from a different server. Troubleshooting 502 Bad Gateway Error in Nginx is a bit easy process by identifying the proper error on logs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our experts will Troubleshoot the 502 Bad Gateway Error in Nginx and make the websites live under all our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/linux-server-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">server management<\/a><\/strong> plans.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For different types of browsers 502 bad gateway error varies like;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>HTTP Error 502 Bad Gateway<\/li>\r\n<li>HTTP 502<\/li>\r\n<li>502 Service Temporarily Overloaded<\/li>\r\n<li>Temporary Error(502)<\/li>\r\n<li>502 Server Error: The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request<\/li>\r\n<li>502 Bad Gateway Nginx<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Different types of methods to Troubleshoot 502 Bad Gateway Error in Nginx.<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Clear the browser cache and refresh the page.<\/li>\r\n<li>Check the DNS is propagating properly.<\/li>\r\n<li>Check the load on the server and fix it if there is a high load.<\/li>\r\n<li>Check the Nginx error logs.<\/li>\r\n<li>Check if the port 80 \/ 443 is blocked in Firewall<\/li>\r\n<li>Check and confirm is there is any connection timeout error on the Nginx error log.<\/li>\r\n<li>Make the necessary changes on Nginx conf and restart Nginx.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote is-style-default\">\r\n<blockquote class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-red-color\">\r\n<p><strong>Prevent your website from Downtimes<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<cite>Get our experts to manage your server with weekly auditing and 24\/7 monitoring<\/cite>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" style=\"color: white; margin-top: 10px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/linux-server-management\/\">GET STARTED NOW<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time when we browse a site, then the webserver receives the request and processes it, and sends back the requested resources including the HTTP header and HTTP status code. 502 Bad gateway is the server-side error and it happens when a server that acts as a gateway or proxy received an invalid response from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[129,130,131,132],"class_list":["post-5287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-502-bad-gateway-error","tag-502-error","tag-bad-gateway-error-on-nginx","tag-nginx-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17648,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions\/17648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}