Nginx to share default http port

Dec 23, 2016

How to use nginx to proxy http request to default port (e.g. 80) to other processes running on different ports on the same server.

Add a config file named “myconfig” under /etc/nginx/sites-available

server {
    listen   80;
    server_name  domain1;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:8080;
        include /etc/nginx/proxy_params;
    }
}

server {
    listen   80;
    server_name  domain2;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:8081;
        include /etc/nginx/proxy_params;
    }
}

Link the config file to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

$ cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
$ ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/myconfig myconfig

Restart nginx and you’re all set

$ service nginx restart

See this stackoverflow post for reference.

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