Setting Up Nginx Reverse Proxy For Secure Web Development

Setting up an Nginx reverse proxy is easy: configure it to handle all incoming traffic on ports 80/443, then route it to backend servers. This keeps them secure & handles SSL/TLS encryption & load balancing.

Setting up an Nginx reverse proxy is a fairly easy task. You configure the proxy to handle all incoming traffic on ports 80/443, then route it to the backend servers. This setup keeps the backend secure by blocking unwanted traffic and lets the proxy handle things like SSL/TLS encryption and load balancing.
The main Nginx configuration file will look something like this:

worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;
events {
        worker_connections 768;
        # multi_accept on;
}
http {
        ##
        # Basic Settings
        ##
        sendfil...

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