How to do port forwarding in nginx?

Question

Nginx

How to perform port forwarding in NGINX?
Forward IP/port to http://IP:port

Answer 1

Perhaps something like this?

location ~ "/port/(\d+)" {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:$1/;
}

Answer 2

If you want pure port forwarding, then the stream_proxy module will help.