nginx proxy all traffic to remote nginx

Question

I have 2 servers,

with IP xx.xx.xx.xx, situated in Germany ... (running frontend: nginx(static content), backend: Apache2)
with IP yy.yy.yy.yy, situated in Italy...

All requests at the moment is sending to server with IP xx.xx.xx.xx, How can I proxy all traffic from xx.xx.xx.xx to yy.yy.yy.yy using nginx ...

 request proxy, request Internet -> xx.xx.xx.xx(nginx) -> yy.yy.yy.yy(nginx, Apache) <- <- response proxy, response

Did you try read documentation? proxy_pass _http://yy.yy.yy.yy — CyberDem0n
– CyberDem0n, Commented Mar 25, 2011 at 12:29
sure! but how to read the X-Real-IP on remote side(ip: yy.yy.yy.yy) ?? — user676674
– user676674, Commented Mar 25, 2011 at 18:25
All of the solutions did not work for me. I went with the (closed source) ngrok. — koppor
– koppor, Commented Feb 7, 2018 at 14:58

Stephen Ostermiller · Accepted Answer · 2022-06-22 19:33:17Z

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For others. Answer for subject is configure Nginx like:

server { listen 80; server_name mydomain.example; location / { access_log off; proxy_pass http://mydomain.example:8080; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; } }

edited Jun 22, 2022 at 19:33

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answered Oct 27, 2011 at 10:42

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5 Comments

pomo Over a year ago

Does location / match all paths? or only the root path '\'?

Vladimir Shmidt Over a year ago

@pomo according guidlines here nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location it will match all nested queries such as site.com/index.html but not for root query aka site.com/

dikkini Over a year ago

@VladimirShmidt it matches root location too.

Crysfel Over a year ago

This works great! Is pretty much the same as when setting up a private node server and using nginx as the public server.

MrSalesi Over a year ago

What about Authentication in upstream proxy for example server : mydomain.example:8080 user : xxxx pass : yyyy ?

Dhanraj Dadhich · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-13 07:17:14Z

You can use upsteream like:

upstream xx.xx.xx.xx:8080{ #ip_hash; server xx.xx.xx.xx:8080 max_fails=2 fail_timeout=2s; server yy.yy.yy.yy:8181 max_fails=2 fail_timeout=2s; }

then you can use the cookie or header to set the request like:

location /app { if ($cookie_proxy_override = "proxy-target-A") { rewrite . http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8080/app; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; break; } if ($cookie_proxy_override = "proxy-target-B") { rewrite . http://yy.yy.yy.yy:8181/webreg; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; break; } proxy_pass http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8080/webreg; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; }

This is wrong syntax and it won't work. You should set any name to upstream, like upstream myservers { ... } and then you can use this name in proxy_pass http://myservers;

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