# Reverse proxy with nginx
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reverse-proxy-with-nginx/80244
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 28, 2017, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reverse-proxy-with-nginx/80244 "2017-03-28T06:06:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@gmmurugan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gmmurugan)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reverse-proxy-with-nginx/80244/1 "2017-03-28T06:06:26Z")
do i need to config reverse proxy even for kibana 5? why its been a manual task?
any better cookbook available?
its not working anyway.. getting 404
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### Author:  [@pjanzen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pjanzen)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reverse-proxy-with-nginx/80244/2 "2017-03-28T06:15:00Z")
Without telling what the config is it's hard to determine whats wrong. About the manual taks, setting up a reverse proxy is a trival task. I use the following config.
```
set $kibana 172.25.33.100;
location / {
proxy_pass http://$kibana:5601;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header Referer "";
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_connect_timeout 150;
proxy_send_timeout 100;
proxy_read_timeout 100;
proxy_buffers 16 64k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size 64k;
client_max_body_size 256k;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;
}
```
And this works fine for me.
Also if you need a cookbook, why not create one and contribute to the comunity? sharing = recieving...
Paul.
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### Author:  [@gmmurugan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gmmurugan)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reverse-proxy-with-nginx/80244/3 "2017-03-28T06:26:03Z")
> [@pjanzen](#):
>
> set $kibana 172.25.33.100;
> location / {
> proxy\_pass http://:5601$kibana;
> proxy\_set\_header Host $host;
> proxy\_set\_header Referer "";
> proxy\_set\_header X-Real-IP $remote\_addr;
> proxy\_set\_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy\_add\_x\_forwarded\_for;
> proxy\_http\_version 1.1;
> proxy\_connect\_timeout 150;
> proxy\_send\_timeout 100;
> proxy\_read\_timeout 100;
> proxy\_buffers 16 64k;
> proxy\_busy\_buffers\_size 64k;
> client\_max\_body\_size 256k;
> client\_body\_buffer\_size 128k;
> }
server {
listen 0.0.0.0:80;
server\_name localhost;
access\_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.log;
location / {
proxy\_pass [http://localhost:5601](http://localhost:5601);
proxy\_read\_timeout 90;
}
}
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### Author:  [@gmmurugan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gmmurugan)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reverse-proxy-with-nginx/80244/4 "2017-03-28T06:26:37Z")
this is what i used and when i used yours i see error in restarting the service
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### Author:  [@pjanzen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pjanzen)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 6:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reverse-proxy-with-nginx/80244/5 "2017-03-28T06:42:26Z")
Whats the error you see? And is that all the nginx config you have?
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### Author:  [@gmmurugan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gmmurugan)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reverse-proxy-with-nginx/80244/6 "2017-03-28T13:30:52Z")
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart nginx.service
Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status nginx.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
do i need to use the localhost/floating ip address in the set kibana?
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### Author:  [@gmmurugan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gmmurugan)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reverse-proxy-with-nginx/80244/7 "2017-03-28T13:31:21Z")
btb, in which file i need to update
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### Author:  [@pjanzen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pjanzen)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reverse-proxy-with-nginx/80244/8 "2017-03-29T05:14:31Z")
You need to use you own configured ip address, if that is a float I assume you have some sort of load balancer. If so you need to apply that configuration on all hosts.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reverse-proxy-with-nginx/80244/9 "2017-04-26T05:15:10Z")
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