I am currently learning about AWS and I have a single EC2 instance running with a nodejs server on port 3000, an Application load balancer with SSL setup that listen on port 80 and 443 (http & https). When I make requests to the http route it returns back the successful health check message. But when I try to access my api via the https method, I get a 502 Error. I googled around and read some articles and they pointed out that the nodejs server keepAliveTimeout and headersTimeout should be higher than the timeout option of the ALB. I tried that and it didn't work. I also tried to set the max-http-header-value to 16384, I also tried to check the access logs for the load balancer on my S3 bucket and the logs just showed that I am getting a 502 error and nothing more. What could be the issue? Because I have tried all solutions that presented but they don't seem to work.

CodePudding user response：

The 443 listener needs to be pointed to port 80 on the ec2 instance

CodePudding user response：

The first thing to check is that your server is responding to requests. Try connecting to port 3000 on the server, either from the server itself (eg curl localhost:3000) or from outside the server (which will require the Security Group to permit access to port 3000).

Once you have confirm that the server is responding, configure Security Groups as:

• A Security Group on the Application Load Balancer (ALB-SG) that permits Inbound access on ports 80 and 443
• A Security Group on the Amazon EC2 instance (App-SG) that permits inbound access on port 3000 from ALB-SG

That is, App-SG should specifically refer to ALB-SG in its Inbound rules.

Then, configure the Load Balancer to have a Target Group that points at port 3000 on the app server and provide it a URL for the Health Check (that could simply be /).

Then, connect to the Application Load Balancer and see whether you can access your app.