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Thanks for your help Abdi, I worked out how to write the firewall rule to do this for a server with hosts on dedicated IP's. The Nginx proxy_pass works very much like Apache's mod_proxy. The request IP is the proxy_pass IP. Therefore, the firewall rule becomes: Allow incoming from...

Thanks. That's way I didn't want to try without more assurance (I don't fully see the IP relationships). Nevertheless, my understanding is that proxy_pass directive sets the address of the proxied server, not the IP from which the request is made. I thought the request from Nginx comes from...

Thanks. Actually, my host .conf's read, server { listen 50.23.xxx.xxx:80; ... location / { # IPv6 isn't supported in proxy_pass yet. proxy_pass http://50.23.xxx.xxx:7080; ... and similar for listen on port 443 with proxy pass to host ip on port 7081. Where...

Hi, I realize that Nginx passes requests to Apache via ports 7080 and 7081, however why are these ports publicly accessible? Would this still work if I write the firewall rules (for these ports): Allow incoming from 127.0.0.1 Deny incoming from all others I am looking for a way to ensure...