nginx-reverse-proxy.md

Use Nginx as a reverse proxy

Configure Nginx to proxy requests to Opengist. Here are example configuration file to use Opengist on a subdomain or on a subpath.

Make sure you set the base url for Opengist via the configuration.

Subdomain

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

    location / {
        proxy_pass https://127.0.0.1:6157;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    }
}

Subpath

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;

    location /opengist/ {
        rewrite ^/opengist(/.*)$ $1 break;
        proxy_pass https://127.0.0.1:6157;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Prefix /opengist;
    }
}

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To apply changes:

sudo systemctl restart nginx