diff --git a/postgrest/tpl/nginx.conf b/postgrest/tpl/nginx.conf
index 7725383b259e14bacdf29d9d6ff2e5adeaad7dfd..e7e8acc310367447b0c415283d4b1e7e6d4de896 100644
--- a/postgrest/tpl/nginx.conf
+++ b/postgrest/tpl/nginx.conf
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # This file is written by salt. Don't even think about it.
 upstream postgrest_{{ instance_name }} {
-    server                      localhost:{{ postgrest_port }};
+    server                      127.0.0.1:{{ postgrest_port }};
     keepalive                   64;
 }