proxy in Nginx
A proxy is defined in a location block
upstream targetService {
server 127.0.0.1:8080;
# A keepalive directive sets the maximum number of upstream idle connections that can remain open at any given time (for each Nginx worker process).
keepalive 64;
}
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto "https";
proxy_pass http://targetService;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_pass_request_headers on;
proxy_set_header Connection "keep-alive";
proxy_store off;
}
where:
If the URI is specified along with the address, it replaces the part of the request URI that matches the location parameter.
For example, with the below configuration:
location /some/path/ {
proxy_pass http://www.example.com/link/; # the end slash is important
}