Coexistence of NGINX and Apache on port 80 - is it possible?

Question

Nginx

Good day.
I have a server on CentOS with Apache installed.
Is it possible to configure NGINX and Apache so that NGINX is only responsible for serving static files (jpg|jpeg|gif|png|svg|js|css|swf), and Apache is still responsible for everything else?

Answer 1

We hang up apache on 8080 for example.
And nginx is configured like this

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name domain.com;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://domain.com:8080;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
        proxy_connect_timeout 120;
        proxy_send_timeout 120;
        proxy_read_timeout 180;
    }

    location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|svg|js|css|swf)$ {
        root /var/www/html/domain.com;
    }
}

Answer 2

Why do you need Apache if you have nginx?

Answer 3

If there is a second ip, then hang the statics on another domain / subdomain and set up the return there. They cannot exist together on the same IP and port.

Answer 4

No. But you don't need it, it's enough to forward "everything else" to Apache.