Forwarding: Reverse Proxy

Reverse proxy forwarding will send the visitor's request to the target URL, the target will process the request and respond to nginx, and nginx will pass the response to the visitor. The URL does not change in the browser and the visitor may have no idea this is happening. This can be used to run additional types of web applications on the server.

To configure a forward as a reverse proxy, from the "Type:" popup menu select "Reverse Proxy".

Select a domain and optionally enter a path. Reverse proxy configurations will always act as a directory. A trailing slash is optional, but nginx will automatically redirect visitors to the trailing-slash address if the path is not entered that way.

Enter a Target URL to send requests to. It is possible to customize headers sent to the target, click the "Proxy Headers" button. Headers are entered as name / value pairs. Spaces are not allowed in header names. Header names need not end with a colon (:), this is handled automatically.

A downward triangle ▾ appears next to the Target URL field. Clicking this will open a menu to select an existing Web App as an upstream source. Selecting a Web App will clear the Path field and set the Target URL to the internal upstream source.

When selecting a Web App as an upstream source, please leave the Web Path field empty. Lifeboat isn't built to handle custom Web App paths at this time.

Click the Save button to save and update the remote nginx configuration.