Nginx as proxy

Posted on 15-Nov-2018

Configure nginx to act like a proxy server that will always forward the requests to the application on port 80

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name {{ server_names }};

    location / {
        proxy_set_header Host $host ;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        #proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto: http;

        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";

        #resolver 8.8.8.8;

        #client_max_body_size 100M;

        proxy_pass http://{{ server_ip }}:80;
        proxy_read_timeout 10;
    }

    error_log /var/log/nginx/{{ ticket | lower }}.proxy-error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/{{ ticket | lower }}.proxy-access.log;
}

server {
    #listen 
    listen 443 ssl;

    server_name {{ server_names }};

    #ssl_session_cache  builtin:1000  shared:SSL:10m;
    #ssl_protocols  TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    #ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!CAMELLIA:!DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4;
    #ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/<domain_name>/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/<domain_name>/privkey.pem;
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf;
    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem;

    location / {
        proxy_set_header Host $host ;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto: https;

        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";

        #resolver 8.8.8.8;

        #client_max_body_size 100M;

        proxy_pass http://{{ server_ip }}:80;
        proxy_read_timeout 10;
    }

    error_log /var/log/nginx/{{ ticket | lower }}-ssl.proxy-error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/{{ ticket | lower }}-ssl.proxy-access.log;
}