Reverse-Proxy


Apr. 15, 2024

NGINX Proxy Manager

I’ve mentioned using NGINX as an interface between the internet and a service a while ago. This works by all incoming traffic coming to NGINX, and NGINX determining which service that traffic should go (from the NGINX config files) then acting as a middleman. This functionality is generally referred to as a ‘reverse proxy’.

Terrible drawing of NGINX proxying requests off to different services.

This is nice for a few reasons: