Did you try to just have your nginx listen on port 80 and see if it works ?

A.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:10 AM, nginxn00b <nginx-forum@nginx.us> wrote:
>>>First replace
>>>proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
>>>by
>>>proxy_pass http://monsite.com:8080;
>
> Gee, so simple! Yes, that worked. Thank you very much!! To finish
> everything I need to forward port 81 to port 80. I guess a firewall rule
> will help me out here.
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,212680,212734#msg-212734
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