NGINX as a reverse proxy (for apache or any web server)
Reverse Proxies sit in front a web server (or server farm) to better distribute the load to the server (a load balancer in a sense. In fact, all load balancers are reverse proxies, by definition).
In addition, reverse proxies hide the actual web server IPs by exposing their own IP – same as a single IP Load balancer (e.g. F5 load balancers). Read this for all possible uses of reverse proxies
NGINX can be configured as a reverse proxy for apache and other web servers.
Also read Fiddler vs Wireshark
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