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NGINX HTTP Server

You're reading from   NGINX HTTP Server Harness the power of NGINX with a series of detailed tutorials and real-life examples

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835469873
Length 262 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Begin with NGINX
2. Chapter 1: Downloading and Installing NGINX FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Basic NGINX Configuration 4. Part 2: Dive into NGINX
5. Chapter 3: Exploring the HTTP Configuration 6. Chapter 4: Exploring Module Configuration in NGINX 7. Chapter 5: PHP and Python with NGINX 8. Chapter 6: NGINX as a Reverse Proxy 9. Part 3: NGINX in Action
10. Chapter 7: Introduction to Load Balancing and Optimization 11. Chapter 8: NGINX within a Cloud Infrastructure 12. Chapter 9: Fully Deploy, Manage, and Auto-Update NGINX with Ansible 13. Chapter 10: Case Studies 14. Chapter 11: Troubleshooting 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring the reverse proxy mechanism

Running NGINX as an application server is somewhat like the FastCGI architecture described in the previous chapter; we are going to be running NGINX as a frontend server, and for the most part, reverse proxy requests to our backend servers.

In other words, it will be in direct communication with the outside world whereas our backend servers, whether Node.js, Apache, and so on, will only exchange data with NGINX:

Figure 6.1: An example of using Nginx as a proxy server

Figure 6.1: An example of using Nginx as a proxy server

There are now two web servers running and processing requests.

NGINX, positioned as a frontend server (in other words, as a reverse proxy), receives all the requests coming from the outside world. It filters them, either serving static files directly to the client or forwarding dynamic content requests to our backend server.

Our backend server only communicates with NGINX. It may be hosted on the same computer as the frontend, in which case the...

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