Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

Advanced configuration

For now, we have only made use of one directive offered by the proxy module. There are many more features that we can employ to optimize our design. The following table in this section lists a handful of settings that are valid for most of your reverse proxy configurations, although they need to be verified individually. Since they can be employed multiple times, you can also place them in a separate configuration file that you will include in your location blocks.

Start by creating a proxy.conf text file, which you will place in the Nginx configuration directory. Insert the directives described in the following table. Then, for each location of your if blocks that forward requests to a backend server or upstream block, ...