I wanted to access my website available at http://localhost:4000, via nginx reverse proxy from external IP address(not on my network)
I have enabled TCP port forwarding on my home router and forwarding port 80 to port 80.
When I try to access my website as http://my.public.ip OR http://my.public.ip:80, page doesn't load. (I did try forwarding actual port 4000 on router and http://my.public.ip:4000, site loaded fine)
What could be missing.
Below is my ngnix conf:
#user nobody;
worker_processes 1;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
send_timeout 1800;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 6500;
server {
listen 80;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:4000;
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-Client-Verify SUCCESS;
proxy_set_header X-Client-DN $ssl_client_s_dn;
proxy_set_header X-SSL-Subject $ssl_client_s_dn;
proxy_set_header X-SSL-Issuer $ssl_client_i_dn;
proxy_read_timeout 1800;
proxy_connect_timeout 1800;
}
}
# HTTPS server
server {
listen 443;
server_name localhost;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate server.crt;
ssl_certificate_key server.key;
ssl_session_timeout 5m;
ssl_protocols SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1;
ssl_ciphers ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
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-Client-Verify SUCCESS;
proxy_set_header X-Client-DN $ssl_client_s_dn;
proxy_set_header X-SSL-Subject $ssl_client_s_dn;
proxy_set_header X-SSL-Issuer $ssl_client_i_dn;
proxy_read_timeout 1800;
proxy_connect_timeout 1800;
}
}
}
If you want to accept with IP address instead of domain name, you can define default
server_name
like this: