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Create nginx proxy pass

Table of contents

1. The code
2. About the code

An nginx proxy pass server is where you pass a request from nginx to proxied servers, whether this be another nginx or other web servers, over different protocols.

I won’t be giving a case scenario by which this would be useful.

The code

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name torrents.example.com;

  location / {
    proxy_pass http://www.demo.com:8080/rutorrent;
  }
}

About the code

In the code above, you have a server where you have rutorrent in a directory in port 8080. The domain name is www.demo.com and the protocol is not secure.

That long url, http://www.demo.com:8080/rutorrent, is too long to memorize and it has a port number in it.

So in the code, instead of a long url with port number and a directory, the same can be accessed via http://torrents.example.com with no port number and no extra directory path.

That’s it.

Btw, I have been using nginx proxy pass since last year, but I just did not document it.