Nginx rewrite urls to match proxy address - wordpress

I am running a wordpress docker container , the site is accessible through host machines port 8000 , if go to localhost:8000 boom i get to see my wordpress site.
It's boring to always type localhost:8000 to see my website, so i decided to commission nginx as a reverse proxy for my site. I've set up a virtual host in nginx that has the name proxy.site , i can now access by wordpress site by visiting http://proxy.site.
Up until this point, we are doing great, when http://proxy.site opens up, i can see a list of my blog posts, lets say i want to read my latest blog post about COVID-19 , when i click on the link, ohohohoho it opens up as http://localhost:8000/posts/covid19
I want it to open with the proxy url as in http://proxy.site/posts/covid19 , i need to whole site to be accessible through the http://proxy.site site name,
I need nginx to rewrite all my links in localhost:8000/* to proxy.site/* , no body loves typing ports when accessing a blog,
Here is how my nginx conf file looks like
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /var/www/proxy.site/html;
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name proxy.site www.proxy.site;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8000;
#proxy_set_header HOST $host;
#proxy_redirect http://localhost:8000/ http://proxy.site/ ;
#try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
}
How do i achieve rewrite all urls in the proxied site with my custom host name ?

Nginx does not listen to localhost:8080, nginx will not inspect links from your site to rewrite them, you should find a way on WordPress to replace base url of your links.based on the environment

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Initially I’ve been running these test sites locally (on different ports - the main site on port 4321 and subdomain on 4323) until I decided to deploy them using real domain names. However, presumably you cannot configure DNS to point to a specific IP and port (presumably a DNS record just points to an IP only), so I changed both the 2 domains’ conf files to listen to port 80 (as apparently you can define the server names to tell nginx which site to load - called virtual hosts?). Note that I have DNS A records for mysite.co.uk and test.mysite.co.uk that both point to the same public IP address of my router.
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And here’s the /etc/nginx/sites-available/test.mysite.co.uk.conf file:
upstream wp-php-handler {
server unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
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As per this post, I’ve tried adding port_in_redirect off, autoindex on and proxy_redirect http://test.mysite.co.uk:4323/ http://test.mysite.co.uk/ but to no avail.
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I'm very new to nginx and server game and i'm trying to setup a reverse proxy. Basically what i need is when i enter my server ip it should open a particular website (Ex: https://example.com).
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I'm having trouble configuring my nginx proxy despite reading a number of guides and trying for three consecutive evenings.
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I have a NAS which has a subdomain myName.surname.com which connects to the admin page. On that NAS, I have apache webserver running hosting a couple of sites on port 81, 82,
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See this https://www.geekytuts.net/linux/ultimate-nginx-configuration-for-wordpress/

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