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Using NGINX as a Reverse Proxy for an Application and Blog

NGINX is useful beyond simply serving static content and works wonderfully as a reverse proxy in front of other backend services. In this activity, the student will set up NGINX as a reverse proxy for a simple web application and a WordPress blog. Being able to configure NGINX for use with a variety of application types allows you to use the right tool for the job (WordPress for blogging in this case) and provide a lot of business value.

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Level

Intermediate

Duration

1h 30m

Published

Jul 23, 2020

Challenge

Serve WordPress Content for blog.example.com

The student is asked to route traffic from blog.example.com to the locally installed WordPress application. PHP-FPM is listening on the socket at /var/run/php-fpm.sock and is the recommended FastCGI proxy destination.
Challenge

Proxy Requests to Web Application for example.com

Requests for example.com should all be routed to the web application listening on port 8000.

Author

A Cloud Guru

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