Sprite not starting on HTTP request (Bad Gateway)

[nihakue]

I have a sprite running a service which was started with sprite-env services start –cmd my-command –http-port 8080 but HTTP requests to the public URL aren’t spinning the sprite back up. Here’s my get output:

```
{“name”:“islands”,“cmd”:“/home/sprite/islands/start-dev.sh”,“args”:,“needs”:null,“http_port”:8080,“state”:{“name”:“islands”,“status”:“running”,“pid”:307,“started_at”:“2026-01-21T18:56:30.54948737Z”,“next_restart_at”:“0001-01-01T00:00:00Z”}}
```

If I sprite console -s my-sprite then the sprite starts up and I can access the public endpoint again. Other sprites I’ve created haven’t had this issue. I’m wondering if there’s logs somewhere I can pull to see what’s happening.

[nihakue]

Huh. Bounced the service (delete/create) and it’s now working as expected. Possibly something I did.

[kurt]

That error you got was probably from the Sprite itself thinking it couldn’t connect to your service internally. If it happens again, check your service logs? Maybe make sure there’s a pid for it, too.