Configure Nginx as a Reverse Proxy for Apache (HP Cloud)

Abhishek Ghosh

By Abhishek Ghosh June 18, 2015 7:36 pm Updated on June 18, 2015

Configure Nginx as a Reverse Proxy for Apache (HP Cloud)

Here is How To Configure Nginx as a Reverse Proxy for Apache on HP Cloud Instance Running Ubuntu or Any Deb GNU/Linux. Both listen to port 80. We talked about Reverse Proxy and Reverse Proxying with Nginx Before. This is not a fully new users’ guide.

Configure Nginx as a Reverse Proxy for Apache : Specific For HP Cloud

Router, Subnet settings should be set properly to allow Port 80 Ingress and Egress.

If we run Apache behind Nginx, then the Port will be 8080. This is for who do not want to use PHP via FastCGI i.e. run a separate PHP5-FPM process.

If we configure for Side by Side running, we will use Port 80. Side by Side running needed when the web software does not support Nginx. If need to update the NameVirtualHost directive with IP in this case.

Configure Nginx as a Reverse Proxy for Apache

First we need to install Nginx :

apt-get install nginx
# apt-get install nginx-full

1 2	apt-get install nginx # apt-get install nginx-full

First we need edit the /etc/nginx/sites-available/default file :

server {
     listen   80; 
# /usr/share/nginx/html;
      root /var/www/; 
      server_name thecustomizewindows.com; 
        index index.php index.html index.htm;
        server_name thecustomizewindows.com;
 
      access_log logs/nginx_access.log;
      error_log logs/nginx_error.log;
 
      location / { 
            try_files $uri $uri/ @backend;
      } 
 
      location @backend {
            proxy_set_header X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header Host $host;
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
#         proxy_pass http://10.0.0.1:8080;
      }
      
      location ~ /\.ht {
                deny all;
        }
}

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server {

listen 80;

# /usr/share/nginx/html;

root /var/www/;

server_name thecustomizewindows.com;

index index.php index.html index.htm;

server_name thecustomizewindows.com;

access_log logs/nginx_access.log;

error_log logs/nginx_error.log;

location / {

try_files $uri $uri/ @backend;

}

location @backend {

proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;

proxy_set_header Host $host;

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;

# proxy_pass http://10.0.0.1:8080;

}

location ~ /\.ht {

deny all;

}

If Nginx fails then it will pass the request to Apache2. Be careful about the listen 80; directive. Test with commenting it out and running nginx -t.

Configure Nginx as a Reverse Proxy for Apache (HP Cloud)

Now we will install Apache2 :

apt-get install apache2

1	apt-get install apache2

We have edit two files, one is /etc/apache2/ports.conf :

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8080
Listen 127.0.0.1:8080

1 2	NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8080 Listen 127.0.0.1:8080

Second, we have copy the default file, edit the port to 8080 :

cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/thecustomizewindows
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/thecustomizewindows

1 2	cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/thecustomizewindows nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/thecustomizewindows

That file should have :

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8080>

1	<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8080>

Apache2 virtual host should be corrected to have the same web root :

<VirtualHost>
      DocumentRoot "/var/www/"
      ServerName thecustomizewindows.com
      ...
</VirtualHost>

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DocumentRoot "/var/www/"

ServerName thecustomizewindows.com

...

</VirtualHost>

Now activate it :

sudo a2ensite thecustomizewindows

1	sudo a2ensite thecustomizewindows

thecustomizewindows is just a name used. Then we can install PHP5 and restart the services :

apt-get install php5
service apache2 restart
service nginx restart

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apt-get install php5

service apache2 restart

service nginx restart

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