Ssh tunnel to web site behind Nginx proxy
 

Hello,
I setup a web site that is using Apache and Nginx as a proxy. The web site itself runs fine. I want to access the web site with a SSH tunnel on my laptop. I can create the tunnel by:

When I point Firefox to the tunnel http://localhost:2110 then I see only the default Nginx greeting page, what is to expected because the server is using name based virtual domains. So I have installed the Firefox Addon Modify Headers* to modify the Host header. As I can confirm in the access.log the correct Host header is set:

But Nginx is not showing me the www.mueller-public.de site, it still shows the default greeting page, but it should show me the www.mueller-public.de site, after all the Addon is correctly modifying the Host header. I was searching, and the Addon should me enough.

I just want to use an SSH tunnel to access the web site. Do I need to modify some different Http header?

* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...odify-headers/

If this is for testing purposes shouldn't you just set the domain name and IP address in your /etc/hosts file? ...or phrased differently: why do you think you need SSH?

I was trying to change my hosts file but the result is just the same. I was following the guide here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...ugh-ssh-tunnel
Also this guide that is mentioning the method of the Addon:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...-remote-server
Both methods are not working. The Nginx log file is showing the correct domain but Nginx is still serving me the default page.

I was thinking for security reasons. I have multiple domains on the same server, by name based virtual hosts, but only one IP address. So I can't use SSL for each domain. Normally, I could use SSH tunnel to access admin pages so that the password is encrypted. But it doesn't work.

Telling us and showing us the entry are not the same. Did you try setting it this way?

Hello,
I have change the hosts file to:
And make a SSH Tunnel:
And access the site as
http://www.mueller-public.de:2110/

I get still the default Nginx page.
But why will all those methods the HTTP host is correctly "www.mueller-public.de", as shown in the logs?

Thank you for your replies.

Shouldn't that be

I try with curl, it's the same default Nginx page. But in access.log the Host is correctly specified as www.mueller-public.de
The site is also online now. You can see that Nginx and Apache are correctly configured. It's only if I try to create SSH tunnel the proxy is not working any more and Nginx is returning the default Nginx page.

Update:
I successful connected now to the virtual host by using
And
Is returning me the correct site. But I think it's useless because the links are all www.mueller-public.de/... and not localhost.de:2110/... Meaning if I click on any link then I go out of the SSL tunnel.