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Set up reverse proxy on local machine

See How to configure Reverse Proxy on Digital Ocean Droplet over Origin Server on AWS?

Pre-requisites

Prepare 2 separate server blocks on local machine.

Server 1 - origin server

Create a local nginx.conf file. Click Here for config file sample

mkdir /users/A-name/nginx 
vim nginx.conf
nginx -c /Users/A-name/Nginx/nginx.conf   
    # curl http://localhost:8888, check everything is good

Run php locally

php -S localhost: 9999
    # this will return 404 
touch resp.txt
    # content: "hello from php server"
php -S localhost: 9999 resp.txt 
    # curl http://localhost:9999

Server 2 - reverse proxy server

Add below in nginx location { … }

   location /php {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:9999/;
    }

Then, check:

  1. curl http://localhost:8888/php
  2. outputs: Hello from php server

Server 1 - config file sample 

# this is on local PC, not remote server 
events { ... }

http {
    server {
        listen 8888;

        location / {
            return 200 "hello from Nginx\n";
        }

        location /php {
            # add_header proxied nginx;
            # adding custom header for this proxy, curl outputs "proxied:nginx" 
            proxy_set_header proxied nginx; #set the header on the proxy request 
            proxy_pass 'http://localhost:9999/';
        }

        location /nginx-org {
            proxy_pass 'https://nginx.org/';
            # must ends with '/'
        }
    }
}