proxy http requests to different port numbers?

[Francis Daly]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 02:40:55PM -0400, lvic4594 wrote:

Hi there,

> Looking for workaround: are there any available proxy modules (
> specifically interested in ngnx) that would allow to map request urls to
> different port numbers? So that, for example: request for
> "http://myserver.com/rest1/api/index.html" would be forwarded to
> "http://myserver.com:8080/api/index.html"...

That sounds like what nginx's proxy_pass is for, no?

http://nginx.org/r/proxy_pass

==
  location /rest1/ {
    proxy_pass http://myserver.com:8080/;
  }
==

plus whatever extra configuration your service needs.

(It does assume that the API is happy to be reverse-proxied.)

	f
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