HAProxy send-proxy to Nginx
I am trying to reverse proxy clients to a web server through HAProxy and Nginx with SSL traffic using SNI. With the standard configuration, the web server sees the HAProxy IP and connects. When applying "send-proxy" to the appropriate backend in HAproxy my client browser fails to connect and times out. How can I configure Nginx headers to decipher this and the web server know their IP?
Solution 1:
See NGINX's docs:
http {
#...
server {
listen 80 proxy_protocol;
listen 443 ssl proxy_protocol;
#...
}
}
This allows NGINX to be downstream from an HAProxy transmitting proxy protocol. The link I quoted contains more information on how to log/get the client's IP address.