LAMP+ NGINX reverse proxy on CentOS

There are a few tutorials that touch on this on the site, but they are mostly aimed at Ubuntu. Though it will be very similar. The main difference is the package names and the file location.

The first step is to set up Nginx to serve content as normal, but proxy all requests for php files to port 8080. Your Nginx config should look like:

server {
        listen   80; 

        root /var/www/; 
        index index.php index.html index.htm;

        server_name example.com; 

        location / {
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
            proxy_set_header X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header Host $host;
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
         }

         location ~ /\.ht {
                deny all;
        }
}

Now you’ll need to set up Apache to listen on 127.0.0.1:8080 in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf Find and change the any lines referencing port 80 and change them to 8080. In particular, this line:

Listen 80