>>curl -I http://localhost:8080 and see if you can connect.

> I did this on the server and I got:
> curl -I http://localhost:8080
> curl: (7) couldn't connect to host

Your backend / application isn't working that's why nginx can't connect to it and has to return 502.

rr

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