How to configure a proxy in popular web servers (Apache, Nginx)?

@rusty.rosenbaum 

To configure a proxy in popular web servers such as Apache and Nginx, follow these steps:

Apache:

1. Ensure that the mod_proxy module is enabled. You can do this by running the command a2enmod proxy and a2enmod proxy_http to enable the necessary modules.
2. Open the Apache configuration file (usually located at /etc/apache2/apache2.conf or /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) and locate the
3. Within the : ProxyPass / http://destination-url/ ProxyPassReverse / http://destination-url/ Replace destination-url with the URL of the server you want to forward the requests to.
4. Save the configuration file and restart the Apache service using the command service apache2 restart or service httpd restart.

Nginx:

1. Open the Nginx configuration file (usually located at /etc/nginx/nginx.conf or /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf) and locate the server block for the domain you want to configure a proxy for.
2. Within the server block, add the following lines: location / { proxy_pass http://destination-url; proxy_set_header Host $host; } Replace destination-url with the URL of the server you want to forward the requests to.
3. Save the configuration file and restart the Nginx service using the command service nginx restart or /etc/init.d/nginx restart.

After configuring the proxy, all incoming requests to the specified domain will be forwarded to the destination server specified in the proxy configuration.