What is NGINX and how reverse proxies work?

In this video, I explain the difference between Forward Proxy and Reverse Proxy.
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Timestamps
0:00 Teaser
0:06 Video Starts
0:36 Giveaway Alert!
0:55 Proxies and Reverse Proxies
5:21 How does Reverse Proxy System Works?
7:32 Why NGINX Reverse Proxy Architecture is Important?
9:14 TLS Termination
9:40 Conclusion
10:02 Outro
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[@indurkar4338]

Thanks! Mehul for explaining reverse proxies in the easiest way possible. I have been using nginx reverse proxies at my GCP but didn't know all the concepts like we could do load balancing, rate limiting, sockets and much more so this has inspired me to dig dive more into reverse proxies and Nginx.

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Same here, they're so useful but can't take it all in at a first watch.

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Dude, thank you for this video. Your explanation was clear and super helpful.

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Super Thanks Mehul !! Really appreciate your efforts to share the knowledge with the community

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I understood in clear regarding reverse proxy, Thankyou

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Wow !!! so good explanation, tks for dumming it down. Didn't have to rewatch it to gain the knowledge.

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First time watch your video...Clearly explained bro....keep growing.

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Your explanation is so good! thanks for the lesson!

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Thanks for all the knowledge you share on this channel .

[@code8986]

Thank you for the great introduction to NGINX and reverse proxies, in general. I think some developers, like myself, would find a video specifically about configuring NGINX as a reverse proxy for Kestrel, which is the web server used in .NET web application and API deployment, very useful.

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Really need to appreciate your efforts to give us so much knowledge just within 8-10 mins video🤩😃😇

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👍

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Very good understandable explanation, thank you.

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Thanks. Very useful and well-explained.

[@prayasarora]

Thank you so much, it was so helpful for me. Kudos.

[@bunny_the_lifeguard9789]

Very well explained, thanks :)

[@stream.abhimanyu]

learning about how reverse proxies and proxy working , helped me to understand how actually a request resolved on internet

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Your Backend Concpets Series is awesome. Please add it as a playlist on your channel.

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A big thanks ! so now i have a clear understand about Nginx reverse proxy , Peace from Morocco

[@rasnacv3802]

This video was very helpful. Thank you

[@gulshanaggarwal4577]

Super amazing ! One week before I tried to go through Reverse Proxy but I couldn't get understand properly but yeah this was super nice explanation of reverse proxy and it's related stuff. 🔥🔥

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Waiting ⏳ for more and more new content everyday!

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Superb Mehul Sir.. Ur Explanation 🔥🔥

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A Great and Informative Video.. Thank You for this series on Backend Dev Videos... Am Liking this Daily Series a lot.. Thank You once again :) :) :)

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Another backend topic🔥🔥

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very well explained thanks

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I think you are a very smart person very dedicated to teach. keep going..

[@yadav-r]

Very insightful

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Amazing video on nginx!

[@balajichellam]

Thanks, great explanation. You could have added the difference between Proxy and Reverse Proxy also.

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Thank you so much for this, your videos are really awesome with great video quality and content too. With help of your videos now I am able to build web projects. Thanks a lot!! Also I have one request, please make MERN playlist on youtube, it will definitely help many students!

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thanks alot for this video.

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Hello, thanks for the valuable content, one question, do your courses have Spanish subtitles? I am not that professional in English

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Hi Mehul. Would really love to see you create a small Mean Stack application because there is a lot of react content you see online but very less Angular and with your expertise and teaching style, I think a lot of people would benefit from it. It will get a lot of views as well

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[@din956]

Good explanation 👍

[@xg1tau425]

Thank you!

[@sairaj5660]

A video on working with Nginx would be great

[@bikashdas3146]

great explanation

[@techbook663]

Thank you for the detailed video. I really loved your approach. How Nginx can be used as an Image proxy server? I have tried to filter it out using checking image extensions, but how can we handle scenarios where a valid image URL with no extensions? It would be helpful if you could suggest to me an idea.

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Top tier VIDEO

[@user-rm4yk3nf8j]

can we use nginx to communicate between the 2 backend server 1 built in express js and another in python ????

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Damn this is just gold

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Nodejs is not a programming language, it's a runtime environment. Still I am watch your video because it's really informational.

[@samp2286]

deploy a website in separated vms(back-end, front-end and db each one on a different vm but on a single server) could happen with reverse proxy?

[@tempaccount8256]

Hi Mehul, amazing content from past weeks and before too, always get your videos as soon as they arrive.. Kudos to you... I have a situation, I'm creating a full stack application, where a Back-end application sends all the logs from a process running, to the front-end via webSocket, it dumps almost 1000s of messages in a minutes or so. I'm using react/nextjs in frontend, so when the message receive at frontend, it updates the log array and renders on the ui, which scrolls very fast 😂, But the thing is the whole ui, structs after some time, there's a lot of weight of re rendering the logs array, i think so... So, can you please suggest or guide me or reference me to some document or blog, in this kind of problem. Thanks in advance🤘 Take care and keep up the good work

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Let’s see if I can get a T-shirt for proxy 👻👻👻. Loved this content, I had infra migration today and this concept almost killed me. Loved the way you explained it so easily ❤️❤️

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amazing stuff

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Awesome video

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Great video

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Can we expect some practical/code examples sometime soon?

[@amanali9501]

Do this practical on AWS , like deploy the node server plz 🙏

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This video id fantastic.I just loved this video as it solved many problems related to Nginx!!! I would rate 10/10.

[@amjalaswathi7552]

Hi Abhinav do you work on NGINX

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@@amjalaswathi7552 Yes... Do you have any query??

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@@abhinavjha7230 please can you train me we are planning to get that install soon in our APIGWY

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@@abhinavjha7230 if you know anyone who can train also please let me know

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@@amjalaswathi7552 Sure...... It depends on what you are planning to achieve.... There are many who can help you if you got stuck.... Why don't you rather go through some of the videos on KZbin.

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Thanks

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Will Lorem Ipsum comment will work for giveaway ???

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If java is an option then even zuul is a great reverse proxy. Plus you get the Netflix stack along with it.

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Please make video on gRPC DUMBED dumbed down version

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Make one video on Stripe API with React 🔥

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Anyone help me for reverence Proxy how to setup

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damn that's a good video.....

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Good

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Hi Mehul looking for training in NGINX please can you let me know if you can train me well

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❤️

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COMMENTED FOR T SHIRT GIVEAWAY!!!! :)

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I want to one day afford the full stack course to support mehul 🙏

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Same man me also

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caddy is also good

[@AkashSingh-uk5ub]

Proxy is that your teacher don't know that you are not giving the attendance and Reverse Proxy is that you don't know your which teacher is taking your attendance.

[@rw7300]

minimal nginx configuration : github.com/RwGrid/nginx_config_reverse_proxy_ssl

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Btw NODEJS is not a programming language.

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can we say NGINX is a api gateway?🤔

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I want a tshirt !!!!

[@justchecking2470]

I come to a deduction that, an IT guy who has a software developer side is very good at teaching than an IT guy who has a sysadmin side

[@sudeepdeysarker9600]

Personally I prefer Haproxy compared to Ngnix. It's much more simple to use

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Good Content with super annoying background music

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I understand little bit bcz I don't know what actually is EC2,NGNIX😅😅.

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Ec2 is just a instance which runs on cloud using linux or any other preferred os and nginx is a web server, like apache

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@@bikidas5473 Thanks 😊

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Don't add background music!!!!

[@JohnSnow-gi7iv]

Please explain things a little simpler. Some words you say feel very strange and complicated.

[@Beeru8501]

you havn;t provide any practical view . i wasted my time by watching this video . request you to make video with config change as well

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Hi , the method you explained is not working. Can you please share your contact i need your help