Nginx upstream prematurely closed connection while reading response header from upstream, for large requests

Question

I am using nginx and node server to serve update requests. I get a gateway timeout when I request an update on large data. I saw this error from the nginx error logs :

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Answer 1

I meet the same problem and no one of the solutions detailed here worked for me ... First of all I had an error 413 Entity too large so I updated my nginx.conf as following :

http {
        # Increase request size
        client_max_body_size 10m;

        ##
        # Basic Settings
        ##

        sendfile on;
        tcp_nopush on;
        tcp_nodelay on;
        keepalive_timeout 65;
        types_hash_max_size 2048;
        # server_tokens off;

        # server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
        # server_name_in_redirect off;

        include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
        default_type application/octet-stream;

        ##
        # SSL Settings
        ##

        ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
        ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

        ##
        # Logging Settings
        ##

        access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

        ##
        # Gzip Settings
        ##

        gzip on;

        # gzip_vary on;
        # gzip_proxied any;
        # gzip_comp_level 6;
        # gzip_buffers 16 8k;
        # gzip_http_version 1.1;
        # gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

        ##
        # Virtual Host Configs
        ##

        include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
        include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

        ##
        # Proxy settings
        ##
        proxy_connect_timeout 1000;
        proxy_send_timeout 1000;
        proxy_read_timeout 1000;
        send_timeout 1000;
}

So I only updated the http part, and now I meet the error 502 Bad Gateway and when I display /var/log/nginx/error.log I got the famous "upstream prematurely closed connection while reading response header from upstream"

What is really mysterious for me is that the request works when I run it with virtualenv on my server and send the request to the : IP:8000/nameOfTheRequest

Thanks for reading