How to configure nginx as replacement for Pound?

martdj · 07-24-2011, 03:48 PM

Hi all,
As Pound is broken under Fedora 15, which I'm running on my Linux server, I decided to try out nginx and move the Pound configuration to something in nginx which does the same. However, the nginx configuration is a lot more complex than in Pound. What I try to do:
- nginx will listen on port 80
- requests for www.mydomain.nl => Domino HTTP server (on different server)
- if this server is not reachable, go to another Domino HTTP server
- requests for mail.mydomain.nl should preferably be redirected to HTTPS
- requests for tv.mydomain.nl should be redirected to port 9981 of my tvheadend server
- requests for torrent.mydomain.nl should be redirected to my download server on port 9091

There are a couple of other applications similar to the last two which should be reachable on their own subdomain.

I've installed nginx straight from the Fedora repositories. As I'm moving to nginx it would be nice to start using stuff like gzip compression, the proxy possibilities and ultimately ssl, but for now the proper redirection of all websites is the most important. Any help would be appreciated

martdj · 07-25-2011, 02:07 PM

I guess my question isn't clear enough. I'll try to clarify. Currently I have this as default.conf in the conf.d dir:

Quote:

# primary server - proxypass to martdj
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.mydomain.nl;

access_log on;
error_log on;

# proxy to Apache 2 and mod_python
location / {
proxy_pass http://192.168.7.100:80/;
proxy_redirect off;

proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;

client_max_body_size 50m;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;

proxy_connect_timeout 90;
proxy_send_timeout 90;
proxy_read_timeout 90;

proxy_buffer_size 4k;
proxy_buffers 4 32k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size 64k;
proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;
}
}

This forwards all http traffic to 192.168.7.100, but that's not exactly what I want. I want only traffic that's not for a specific subdomain to be directed to this server, but how do I put these subdomains in so that those are directed to their subsequent IP adresses and ports. Is this also done in default.conf or should I put those in a different file in the conf.d dir? I've read the stuff at wiki.nginx.org, but I couldn't find this.

martdj · 07-31-2011, 02:01 PM

A quick update. I've figured out how to configure the different websites in nginx. Put your most used / fallback website in default.conf in the conf.d directory. Create the other websites as
server {
listen 80;
server_name torrent.mydomain.nl;

location / {
proxy_pass http://<mylocalip>:9091;
include /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;
}
}

Now I have to figure out the gzip and proxy settings