Proxy

--- proxy

desc: Transfers request to another server context: location

proxy_pass

• source: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_pass

• synopsis: proxy_pass

• desc: Sets the address of the proxied server and the URI to which location will be mapped

• eg: proxy_pass http://localhost:8000/uri/

proxy_set_header

desc: Redefine headers sent to proxy eg: l

## headers unchanged
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;

proxy_redirect [ default | off | ]

eg: |

## request to localhost:8000/two/foo -> frontend/one/foo
proxy_redirect http://localhost:8000/two/ http://frontend/one;

Cook

Basics

location / {
  proxy_pass        http://localhost:8000;
  proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
}