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NGINX Solution for Apache ProxyPassReverse

Apache

Let's say we want to establish simple proxy between myhost:80 and myapp:8080. The Apache rule is simple:

<VirtualHost myhost:80>
    ServerName myhost
    DocumentRoot /path/to/myapp/public
    ProxyPass / http://myapp:8080/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://myapp:8080/
</VirtualHost>

But NGINX does not have ProxyPassReverse... The solution is adding a few missing HTTP headers.

.. seealso:: `proxy_redirect <https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_redirect>`_. This wiki is partly incorrect. If you need to do location header rewriting, then you will need to use `proxy_redirect <https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_redirect>`_ as well.

NGINX

server {
    listen myhost:80;
    server_name  myhost;
    location / {
        root /path/to/myapp/public;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host:$server_port;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_pass http://myapp:8080;
    }
}