Nginx Reverse Proxy

[bonkas]

Hey Guys.

I am wanting to setup reverse proxy so I can hide my myraid of web services running on different ports behind my domain name.

at the moment I have a alias setup for example.com to redirect to 10.10.10.1(Web server where web services reside) so each web service which runs on other ports I access as follows:

example.com:1111
example.com:1112
example.com:1113
etc

Forwarding these ports to the relevant hosts allows the same experience when using the domain name inside or outside of my network.

How what I am trying to do is do away with the ports and be able to access the services as follows:

example.com/service1
example.com/service2
example.com/service3

How is this done with nginx with pfsense 2.3? or do I still have to use something like squid? I have tried and tried in the past but have struggled and it has never worked.

[ajnozari]

You can do this with Nginx, just google "nginx reverse proxy".  I will say I prefer apache, but that's because it's the httpd server I started with back when I didn't understand anything about the internet.

after a quick search I found: https://www.nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/reverse-proxy/ which looks to be a thorough guide and should help you on your way.  You don't mention anything about SSL though but IIRC the guide covers that as well.