Super-simple Nginx reverse proxy with Homebrew on OS X

a Super-simple Nginx reverse proxy with Homebrew on OS X.md

Installation

1)

brew install nginx
sudo cp /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.8.0/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist /Library/LaunchAgents

2)

Replace /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf with the nginx.conf in this gist. I'm using port 5000 for my current project. Obviously, change server_name as well, and probably the name of its access log.

3)

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist

nginx.conf

# Replace /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf with this. This is the
# default location for Nginx according to 'nginx -h'
worker_processes 1;
error_log /usr/local/var/log/nginx/error.log;

events {
  worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
  # This should be in the same directory as this conf
  # e.g. /usr/local/etc/nginx
  include       mime.types;
  default_type  application/octet-stream;

  # Note this log_format is named 'main', and is used with the access log below
  log_format   main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]  $status '
    '"$request" $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
    '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

  sendfile        on;
  keepalive_timeout  65;

  # Without this I got this error: 'upstream sent too big header
  # while reading response header from upstream'
  proxy_buffer_size   128k;
  proxy_buffers   4 256k;
  proxy_busy_buffers_size   256k;

  server {
      listen 443;
      server_name tools.caseonit.net;
      access_log /usr/local/var/log/nginx/tools.caseonit  main;

      ssl_certificate           /usr/local/etc/nginx/cert.crt;
      ssl_certificate_key       /usr/local/etc/nginx/cert.key;
      ssl on;
      ssl_session_cache  builtin:1000  shared:SSL:10m;
      ssl_protocols  TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
      ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!CAMELLIA:!DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4;
      ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

      location /npm/ {
          proxy_pass         http://black-pearl.local:4873/;
      }
  }
}