Thanks. But I am a bit confused, as the simple setup is not working from port 81 (for testing):


server {
listen 81;
server_name MYDOMAIN.com www.MYDOMAIN.com;

location ^~ /site/static {
root /home/MYDOMAIN/www/static;
index index.htm index.php;
expires 30d;
gzip on;
}

location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:80/;
proxy_redirect off;

proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}

}



Then I try in my browser this:
http://MYDOMAIN.com:81/test.gif

On the server the "test.gif" file is at "/home/MYDOMAIN/www/static/test.gif".

Questions:

(1) What am I missing? Should the test.gif file be somewhere else? Should I try this with some other URL instead of the one I mention above?

(2) Also, if this worked, and I accepted Nginx to be at the front and moved Apache to the background, isn't it true that Apache would have to pass back all processed output to Nginx?

(3) Even with "proxy_redirect off", when I try http://MYDOMAIN.com:81, it actually does a hard 301 redirect to my Apache server.

What am I missing?