Simon,

It appears you have apache configured to only listen on the loopback address (127.0.0.1). Change the lines:

Listen 127.0.0.1:8000 -> Listen *:8000

and change

-> Then, restart apache and give that a shot.

Edit:

Sorry - missed the part about them being on the same server. Can you curl http://127.0.0.1:8000 and get a valid response?

@SeanTobin I think so im getting a valid response. The site works fine without the second vhost enabled. Only when i enable vhost2, then i get 502 bad gateway from nginx. weird.

:~$ curl 127.0.0.1:8000

Authorization Required

This server could not verify that you

are authorized to access the document

requested. Either you supplied the wrong

credentials (e.g., bad password), or your

browser doesn't understand how to supply

the credentials required.

The 401 error will cause nginx to reply with a bad gateway. If you can get it to work without apache listening on 443, I'd do that. You can set up nginx to listen on both 80 and 443 and do all your https encryption in nginx. You can use the same backend for both servers.

I just ended up having NGINX listen to 443 as well, and then it just worked.

I added in bold:

server {

listen 80;

****listen 443 default ssl;

ssl_certificate example.crt;

sslcertificatekey example.key;****

root /www

index index.php index.html index.htm;

server_name example.com;

…..

location ~ .php$ {

proxysetheader X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

proxysetheader X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;

proxysetheader Host $host;

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;

proxyreadtimeout 240s;

}

}