Nginx Reverse Proxy

[clarky2k3]

How do you successfully setup nginx as a reverse proxy. Currently external DNS two domain names ourschool.org and mail.ourschool.org get sent on one external ip address, our firewall then uses port forwarding to forward port 80 to our internal webserver.

 

Currently got nginx setup on same box as apache webserver and configured apache to listen on port *:8080, got nginx setup listening on port 80. Edited the /etc/nginx/sites-available/default to use -

 

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;

 

This should work, shouldnt it or have I missed a trick?

 

Thanks

[webman]

We use nginx. One domain is:

 

server {
   listen          8080;
   server_name     mail.bishopbarrington.net;

   include /etc/nginx/httperr.conf;

   location / {
       proxy_pass          http://mail.bishopbarrington.net:80/;
       proxy_set_header    Host        $host;
       proxy_set_header    X-Real-IP   $remote_addr;
       proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-For     $remote_addr;
       proxy_set_header    X-Originating-IP    $remote_addr;
       proxy_set_header    HTTP_REMOTE_ADDR    $remote_addr;
       proxy_set_header    REMOTE_ADDR         $remote_addr;
   }
}

 

You can safely ignore the include line - it just sets up custom error pages for the site. You can also pick and choose which proxy_set_header entries you want. Just add more server{ ... } entries for each site you have.

[clarky2k3]

So you dont have any virtual hosts on apache? Currently I dont just listening *:8080

[clarky2k3]

Just used my brain for once and figured it out, thanks for your help!

[webman]

Yeah, we still have many sites under Apache using virtual hosts on the same box as Nginx, but also 2-3 different sites on other boxes.

 

Here's how it's currently set up:

 

• Nginx and Apache run on the same box (bbs-web-002).
  
• Nginx runs on port 8080, and only serves the outside world.
  
• Port 80 via external IP is forwarded to port 8080 (Nginx) on bbs-web-002.
  
• Using hostnames, Nginx proxies the requests to the appropriate place, set ip each server { ... } directive.
  
• Bbs-web-002 (and the rest of the LAN) always resolves the internal IP equivalent of all external-facing sites.
  

 

Internal IP examples:

 

bbs-web-002: 192.168.0.11

mail.bishopbarrington.net: 192.168.0.13

http://www.bishopbarrington.net: 192.168.0.11 (runs on bbs-web-002)

 

What exactly do you want Nginx to do at your end and for which hostnames?

 

EDIT Just seen your updated post - no problem

[clarky2k3]

Right running the website through nginx forwarding to apache, great! If I want to add one for mail.ourserver.org do i put the config in the same file or create a new one?