Mastering Nginx

Chapter 4

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Directive Explanation

proxy_send_timeout The length of time that needs to elapse

between two successive write operations

to an upstream server, before the

connection is closed.

proxy_set_body The body of a request sent to an

upstream server may be altered by

setting this directive.

proxy_set_header Rewrites the contents of headers sent to

an upstream server; may also be used to

not send certain headers by setting its

value to the empty string.

proxy_temp_file_write_size Limits the amount of data buffered to

a temporary file at one time, so that

NGINX will not block too long on a

single request.

proxy_temp_path A directory where temporary files

may be buffered as they are proxied

from the upstream server, optionally

multi-level deep.

The following listing brings many of these directives together in a file that can be

included in the configuration within the same location as the proxy_pass directive.

Contents of proxy.conf:

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;

client_max_body_size 10m;

client_body_buffer_size 128k;