Proxy Connection for Tomcat

• For proxy we are using Nginx, so let us install nginx

While installing nginx I got issue with "libunwind" package. So I've manually downloaded that package and installed it.

# wget ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/centos/7.3.1611/os/x86_64/Packages/libunwind-1.1-5.el7_2.2.x86_64.rpm && rpm -ivh libunwind-1.1-5.el7_2.2.x86_64.rpm

# yum install nginx -y

• Now for our default configuration files let us have a directory

# cd /etc/nginx
# mkdir vhosts.d

• Now we need to change the configuration as per our requirement
  • Find the include statement for the config files and add another for our new directory
  • After that remove the server definition under the include statement as we'll have it in our new config

# vi nginx.conf

 include /etc/nginx/vhost.d/*.conf;

• Now lets go to the vhost.d directory and create a new config file
  • Copy the sample server definition after deleting the existing server definition in the main config file
  • Paste it in the new config file and modify as per your requirements

# cd vhost.d/
# vi default.conf

server {
 listen 80;

 root /opt/tomcat8/webapps/hello/;
 index index.php index.html index.htm;

 server_name localhost;

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

 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;
 }
}

• Start Nginx
• Verify that you are able to hit the webapps/hello without any issue.

# elinks http://localhost