Automate - Publishing Behind a Reverse Proxy

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Introduction

This article provides an example configuration for publishing Nuix Rampiva behind an nginx reverse proxy under a subfolder.

Prerequisites

Nuix Rampiva v8.0 or later
nginx

Instructions

A. Sample nginx location section configuration

  location /app/ {
    # Disable request and response buffering
    proxy_request_buffering  off;
    proxy_buffering          off;
    proxy_http_version       1.1;

    # Add X-Forwarded-* headers
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

    # Set the X-Forwarded-Base-Uri header to the public URI under which the app is accessible externally
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Base-Uri http://external.rampiva.com/app/;
    
    # Remove application subfolder from proxied request
    rewrite ^/app/?(.*) /$1 break;

    # Send requestes to internal Rampiva URI
    proxy_pass http://10.0.0.1:81;
  }