February 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
9h 40m
English
Content preview from Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition
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Nginx proxy module
Similar to the previous chapter, the first step towards establishing the new architecture will be to discover the appropriate module. The default Nginx build comes with the proxy module, which allows forwarding of HTTP requests from the client to a backend server. We will be configuring multiple aspects of the module:
- Basic address and port information of the backend server
- Caching, buffering, and temporary file options
- Limits, timeout, and error behavior
- Other miscellaneous options
All these options are available via directives which we will learn to configure throughout this section.