Install and configure nginx as a reverse proxy

1. we have to run apache in the backend and nginx in the frontend so to run both in the one server we need to change the port of apache.

• Edit the httpd.conf file and find the below line and change the port number to 8080 sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

• Restart Apache and validate service httpd restart netstat -pan | grep 8080 [Output: tcp 0 0 :::8080 :::* LISTEN 10170/httpd]

2. Install nginx

sudo yum install nginx

3. Configure nginx for apache

• Create a file wordpress.conf

  vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/wordpress.conf

• Add the below block of code

  server {
      listen 80;
         location / {
              proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;    #add you IP of apche server
                   proxy_set_header Host $host;
                   proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                   proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
              proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
          }
  }
  

  4. Do a configuration test

  sudo service nginx configtest

5. Disable Default Host Config for Nginx

mv /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf.bak

6. Reload the nginx config

sudo service nginx reload

7. visit the info.php page and check the variabe value