Point an NGINX Reverse Proxy to Wordpress Running on Docker

This video shows you how to set up an NGINX Reverse Proxy to route traffic to anything running in docker. In this case, it'll route to the Wordpress instance we have been building over the past few videos.

We need to do this before we can secure our domain name with HTTPS using letsencrypt

Previous videos:
Registering a domain with Google Domains:    • How to transfer domains from GoDaddy ...  
Creating a Wordpress instance on GCP:    • Run Wordpress for Free Forever with G...  
How to Point your Domain at a Google Cloud Instance:    • How to Point your Domain at a Google ...  

Code snippet for nginx configuration:
server {
root /var/www/html;
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name yourdomain.com www.yourdomain.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
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;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
}
}


GitHub repo: https://github.com/chrisbmatthews/wor...

Google Cloud Platform: https://cloud.google.com

Music:    / petersawatzky