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title: "Nginx Reverse Proxy on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2"
date: "2021-09-19T01:30:21Z"
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Install and set up an nginx reverse proxy on an Amazon Linux 2 ec2 instance.

## nginx links:

* https://www.nginx.com/blog/setting-up-nginx/
* https://www.nginx.com/blog/mitigating-ddos-attacks-with-nginx-and-nginx-plus/
* http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html

##  Code


```
sudo amazon-linux-extras install nginx1 -y
sudo systemctl enable nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx
```

```
sudo vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
```

```
server {
  location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
  }
}
```