diff --git a/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/nginx.rb b/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/nginx.rb
index bac5743..8630d55 100644
--- a/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/nginx.rb
+++ b/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/nginx.rb
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ template nginx_vars[gitlab_http_config] do
   mode "0644"
   variables(nginx_vars.merge(
     {
-      :fqdn => node['gitlab']['gitlab-rails']['external_fqdn']
+      :fqdn => node['gitlab']['gitlab-rails']['external_fqdn'],
+      :socket => node['gitlab']['unicorn']['socket']
     }
   ))
   notifies :restart, 'service[nginx]' if OmnibusHelper.should_notify?("nginx")
diff --git a/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/templates/default/nginx-gitlab-http.conf.erb b/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/templates/default/nginx-gitlab-http.conf.erb
index 3db33c6..6293dd7 100644
--- a/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/templates/default/nginx-gitlab-http.conf.erb
+++ b/files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/templates/default/nginx-gitlab-http.conf.erb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # [2] https://github.com/agentzh/chunkin-nginx-module
 
 upstream gitlab {
-  server unix:/home/git/gitlab/tmp/sockets/gitlab.socket;
+  server unix:<%= @socket %>;
 }
 
 server {
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