NGINX Reverse Proxy for Confluence

Neil Schulz

Hello,

I followed the documentation for using NGINX to reverse proxy to port 80, however, when I go to the FQDN without the port, I receive the default NGINX page. This may have to do with the example using www.example.com/conflunece, while ours is confluence.domain.com. Could anyone assist me with this? I'm setting up a POC for us. Management does not want to have to remember the port number to append it to the URL.

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Sam Hall_h1otcf

Hi Neil,

Based on the instructions here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-use-nginx-to-proxy-requests-for-confluence-313459790.html, and assuming you are on Confluence 6.0+) try something like this in your NGINX server block (replace your-domain.com with your POC domain):

server {
        listen confluence.your-domain.com:80;
        server_name confluence.your-domain.com;
        location / {
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_pass http://localhost:8090;
        }
        location /synchrony {
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host:
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_pass http://localhost:8091/synchrony;
                proxy_http_version 1.1;
                proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
        }
}

Make sure the context path in <CONFLUENCE-INSTALL>/conf/server.xml is empty (i.e. not "/confluence"):

<Context path="" docBase="../confluence" debug="0" reloadable="false">

Make sure proxyName and proxyPort are set in <CONFLUENCE-INSTALL>/conf/server.xml:

<Connector port="8090" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"
           maxThreads="48" minSpareThreads="10"
           enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8"
           protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"
           proxyName="confluence.your-domain.com" proxyPort="80"/>

Hope this helps.

Sam