vernon.wenberg

nginx is my preferred lightweight HTTP/HTTPS server and fairly easy to do reverse proxy for. In this example, I use a reverse proxy to expose an internal service running on port 82 to the Internet.

Here is an example config …

server {
        server_name example.vernon.wenberg.net; # must match the sub.host portion of the URL
        proxy_set_header Host   $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        client_max_body_size 100M; # increase size of uploaded files
        location / {
                proxy_pass http://internal-service.vernon.wenberg.net:82;
        }
# Insert SSL certificate block here
}

example.vernon.wenberg.net is a sub-domain that exists on the public Internet while internal-service.vernon.wenberg is an internal system. This also allows the use of an SSL certificate on your nginx server instead of your internal server.