Reverse proxy

 nginx.conf

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events{}

http{

 server{

   listen 8080;

   location / {

    return 200 "Hello from NGINX\n";

  }

 }

}

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nginx -c /Users/uday/nginx.conf

nginx -s reload

curl http://localhost:8080

test php server to use:

php -S localhost:9999

in the directory where it runs above command, the files are picked from there.

or else, you can pass a file as argument

response.txt

--

hello from php

php -S localhost:9999 response.txt

http://localhost:9999

other servers to test:

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https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255

Reverse proxy:

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location /php {

  proxy_pass http://localhost:9999/; //end slash is required else it will take original /php only as path

}

location /php {

  add_header proxied nginx;//this will add header to client browser

  proxy_pass http://localhost:9999/;

}

location /php {

  proxy_set_header proxied nginx;//this will add header to proxy request

  proxy_pass http://localhost:9999/;

}