Introduction

When deploying nginx as a Reverse Proxy, at this time nginx will operate between the client and the server.

When a request from the client to the server is received, this request will be received by nginx and nginx will route the request to the pre-configured BE, and when the BE responds, it will also go through nginx to send the result back to the server.

Setting up a reverse proxy will help hide BE information, and thanks to that, server switching is also easier.

Deployment

To deploy nginx Reverse Proxy, we will need the help of the proxy_pass directive

Please refer to the following example

events {
}

http {
  include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
  server {
    listen 80;
    server_name nginx.test;
    location / {
      proxy_pass "https://nginx.org/";
    }
  }
}

And now, when we access the url http://nginx.test, the system will access and display the content of https://nginx.org without changing the URL of the browser.