Nginx: how to forward requests to a different port (within the same server)?

Question

linux

Hello. There is a service that accepts requests on port 8081. How can I configure nginx to listen on port 8080 and proxy requests to port 8081 to the application, logging the requests themselves to access.log?

Answer 1

server {
    listen 0.0.0.0:8080;
    access_log /path/to/access_log
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8081/;
    }
}