Reverse proxy a URI to a Vagrant box - nginx

Question

I have a Wordpress Vagrant box that I access through the URL localhost:9001 (forwarded port.).
I am currently trying to make it accessible through the URL "molecare.dev".
I have created the line in the hosts file that catches that URL and points it to my localhost (this is working because I can see the nGinx splash page) but I am having trouble catching this URL in the server block and proxy_pass'ing this to the URL(localhost:9001).
Here is my /etc/nginx/sites-available/default file`server_name molecare.dev;
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html index.htm;
# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
server_name localhost;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
# Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
# include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
}
I have written the following code which I think should do it but I don't know where to place it and if it is correct?
server {
listen 80;
server_name molecare.dev;
location / {
proxy_pass localhost:9001;
}
}
Can anyone see if this is correct and if so where I put this?
Thanks!

Answer 1

In the folder /etc/nginx/sites-available/ create a config file for your site, say 'molecare.dev.conf'.
Modify the block you wrote to the following and put that in the new file and save it:
server {
listen 80;
server_name molecare.dev;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9001;
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;
}
}
Then create a symlink:
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/molecare.dev.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/molecare.dev.conf
Reload the nginx configuration:
service nginx reload