How to configure nginx to work with a java server. In the example Jetty is used.
Edit /etc/nginx/sites-available/hostname
:
server {
listen 80;
server_name hostname.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
}
}
Consider disabling external access to port 8080:
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 8080 -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset
An example Jetty configuration (jetty.xml
) might resemble:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure_9_0.dtd">
<!--
| http://eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/configuring-connectors.html
+-->
<Configure id="Server" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server">
<New id="httpConfig" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConfiguration">
<Set name="secureScheme">https</Set>
<Set name="securePort"><Property name="jetty.tls.port" default="8443" /></Set>
<Set name="outputBufferSize">65536</Set>
<Set name="requestHeaderSize">8192</Set>
<Set name="responseHeaderSize">8192</Set>
</New>
<Call name="addConnector">
<Arg>
<New class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.ServerConnector">
<Arg name="server"><Ref refid="Server" /></Arg>
<Arg name="acceptors" type="int"><Property name="http.acceptors" default="-1"/></Arg>
<Arg name="selectors" type="int"><Property name="http.selectors" default="-1"/></Arg>
<Arg name="factories">
<Array type="org.eclipse.jetty.server.ConnectionFactory">
<Item>
<New class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnectionFactory">
<Arg name="config"><Ref refid="httpConfig" /></Arg>
</New>
</Item>
</Array>
</Arg>
<Set name="host"><Property name="jetty.host" default="localhost" /></Set>
<Set name="port"><Property name="jetty.port" default="8080" /></Set>
</New>
</Arg>
</Call>
</Configure>
This will cause Jetty to listen on localhost:8080 and nginx to redirect requests from domain.com:80 to the Jetty server.