nginx-localproxy

Local reverse proxy demonstrations of nginx. This is a useful pattern to avoid cross-site scripting errors between front-end api calls to a backend server. It can also be used to simulate production deployments of legacy applications.

Example1, simple local docker redirect

Change into example1 dir

cd example1

Stand up containers

docker-compose up

Visit localhost and observe container with proxy in effect

Example2

Build example dockerfile

docker build . -t handler

Stand up containers

docker-compose up

Test 1

Internet browser to localhost and observe base traffic is handled.

Test 2

Internet browser to localhost/path/

Manual

Nginx can be installed locally on a mac with the following steps:

brew install nginx

Setup launchd to start nginx on login and now

brew services start nginx

Change /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf to following

worker_processes  1;

events {
    worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
    server {
        listen 8080;
        server_name localhost;

        location / {
            proxy_pass http://YOUR_DOMAIN:YOUR_PORT;
        }
    }
}