Nginx does redirect, not proxy

Question

I want to set up Nginx as a reverse proxy for a https service, because we have a special usecase where we need to \"un-https\" a connection:

http://nginx_serve

Answer 1

You can setup nginx like this if you do not want the server to do redirects:

server
{
    listen 80;
    server_name YOUR.OWN.DOMAIN.URL;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://THE.SITE.URL.YOU.WANT.TO.DELEGAGE/;
        proxy_redirect off;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    }
}