Nginx : Reverse Proxy Settings#12016/07/07

	Configure Nginx for Reverse Proxy Settings.
[1]	For exmaple, Configure that HTTP connection to Nginx on port 80 are forwarded to the backend Apache httpd server.

root@www:~#

vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

# add into "server" section

    server {

        listen      80 default_server;
        listen      [::]:80 default_server;
        server_name www.srv.world;

        proxy_redirect           off;
        proxy_set_header         X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header         X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header         Host $http_host;

        location / {
            proxy_pass http://dlp.srv.world/;
        }

root@www:~#

systemctl restart nginx

[2]	Change Apache2 settings on Backends to logging X-Forwarded-For header.

root@dlp:~#

a2enmod remoteip

Enabling module remoteip.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 restart

root@dlp:~#

vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

# line 206-209: change like follows

# set IP of Nginx server for RemoteIPInternalProxy

RemoteIPHeader X-Forwarded-For
RemoteIPInternalProxy 10.0.0.31

LogFormat "%v:%p

%l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" vhost_combined
LogFormat "

%l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined

root@dlp:~#

systemctl restart apache2

[3]	Make sure all works fine to access to the Nginx server from a Client with HTTP like follows.

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