[SOLVED] Docker: Is the server running on host "localhost" (::1) and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

Issue

I am getting issues while setup and run the docker instance on my local system with Ruby on Rail. Please see my docker configuration files:-

Dockerfile

FROM ruby:2.3.1

RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash web
RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y build-essential
RUN apt-get -y install nginx
RUN apt-get -y install sudo
# for postgres
RUN apt-get install -y libpq-dev

# for nokogiri
RUN apt-get install -y libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev

# for a JS runtime
RUN apt-get install -y nodejs
RUN apt-get update

# For docker cache
WORKDIR /tmp 
ADD ./Gemfile Gemfile
ADD ./Gemfile.lock Gemfile.lock
ENV BUNDLE_PATH /bundle
RUN gem install bundler --no-rdoc --no-ri
RUN bundle install
# END
ENV APP_HOME /home/web/cluetap_app
RUN mkdir -p $APP_HOME
WORKDIR $APP_HOME
ADD . $APP_HOME
RUN chown -R web:web $APP_HOME
ADD ./nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/
RUN unlink /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
ADD ./nginx/cluetap_nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/
RUN ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/cluetap_nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/cluetap_nginx.conf
RUN usermod -a -G sudo web

docker-compose.yml

version: '2'
services:
  postgres:
    image: 'postgres:9.6'
    environment:
      - PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=
      - POSTGRES_USER=postgres
      - POSTGRES_HOST=cluetapapi_postgres_1
    networks:
      - default
      - service-proxy
    ports:
      - '5432:5432'
    volumes:
      - 'postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data'
    labels:
      description: "Postgresql Database"
      service: "postgresql"
  web:
    container_name: cluetap_api
    build: .
    command: bash -c "thin start -C config/thin/development.yml && nginx -g 'daemon off;'"
    volumes:
      - .:/home/web/cluetap_app
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    depends_on:
      - 'postgres'
networks:
  service-proxy:
volumes:
  postgres:

When I have run docker-compose build and docker-compose up -d these two commands it run succesfully but when I have hit from the url the it thorught internal server error and the error is

Unexpected error while processing request: could not connect to server: Connection refused
    Is the server running on host "localhost" (127.0.0.1) and accepting
    TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
could not connect to server: Cannot assign requested address
    Is the server running on host "localhost" (::1) and accepting
    TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

I have applied some solution but it did not work for me, please guide me I am new to docker and AWS.

Solution

The issue is that you are trying to connect to localhost inside the container for DB. The port mapping that you do 5432:5432 for postgres map 5432 to localhost of your host machine.

Now your web container code is running inside the container. And there is nothing on its localhost:5432.

So you need to change your connection details in the config to connect to postgres:5432 and this is because you named the postgres DB service as postgres

Change that and it should work.

Answered By - Tarun Lalwani