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INC-101

Incident #101: Web Server 502 Bad Gateway & File Permissions

Target: Production Web Tier (Nginx / Node API on Ubuntu 24.04)
Architecture Topology
Internet Traffic ➔ Nginx Reverse Proxy (Port 80) ➔ Static Web Assets in /var/www/html ➔ Node API
Outage Symptom:

HTTP 502 Bad Gateway on all customer API requests. Log indicates static HTML asset cannot be read.

Mission Objective:

Inspect /var/log/nextdevops/app.log, locate the unreadable asset in /var/www/html, fix permissions using chmod, and verify the service works.

Progressive Hint SystemUnlock if stuck
Tier 1: Diagnostic Direction

Inspect the recent error logs using: `cat /var/log/nextdevops/app.log` or `grep "CRITICAL" /var/log/nextdevops/app.log`.

Tier 2: Root Cause Analysis

Reveals the exact failure mechanism in the logs.

Tier 3: Exact Fix Solution

Provides the exact terminal command to resolve the incident.

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