>>First replace >>proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080; >>by >>proxy_pass http://monsite.com:8080; Gee, so simple! Yes, that worked. Thank you very much!! To finish everything I need to forward port 81 to port 80. I guess a firewall rule will help me out here. Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,212680,212734#msg-212734