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How to access to web server behind internet gateway within VPC?

I hosted my web server with nginx server blocks a VPC and put it behind internet gateway as described here. So my web server public ip is not usable. How do I access to my website through internet gateway?. I couldn’t find any docs.

And also if I add another droplet for API behind internet gateway, how do I connect to the API from web server? I’m beginner and learning new things. Of course I don’t need all those thing I asked above. I’m curious and want to how things works.

Thanks😃.

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Bobby Iliev
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• May 24, 2022

Hi there,

The example that you’ve shared is mainly aimed to show how you can setup a NAT so that the outgoing traffic from your backend Droplets would go through the gateway server. So it goes like this:

  • Request made from your backend server -> Goes out via the gateway -> Reaches the public internet

The case that you are describing is for inbound traffic. So you could do that with an Nginx reverse proxy:

  • Request from the outside world -> hits the gateway -> gets routed to the backend service

Here is a quick diagram of how it would look with a DMZ load balancer:

DMZ load balancer

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby