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Reverse proxying a Node application

proxy_pass, the X-Forwarded headers, and why the application must not listen on 0.0.0.0.

28 minutesTechnical content last reviewed on 3 Aug 2026

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What this lesson builds

  • Serving a site and putting an application behind Nginx
  • Running a service under systemd, from first start to automatic recovery
  • Knowing what the machine exposes, and closing the rest