Lesson 08 · 11 min
A domain, HTTPS, and a reverse proxy
There's one more server between the internet and the app. Why?
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On your own server, the app listens on, say, port 3000, while users come to 443. Between them sits a reverse proxy — nginx, Caddy, or Traefik. It accepts HTTPS, decrypts it, and passes the request to the app over plain HTTP; it also serves static files, compresses responses, and can spread traffic across several copies. The domain is pointed at the server's IP with a DNS A record.
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