Nginx configuration for JIRA, TeamCity, Nexus or any other Tomcat web application

example

## Server configuration for nginx to host Atlassian Jira / Jetbrain TeamCity or any other Tomcat web application
#
# author cedric.walter, www.waltercedric.com
# to be saved for ex in /etc/nginx/sites-available/example

server {
 listen   80;
 server_name  jira.example.com;
 access_log off;
 location / {
  proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
  proxy_set_header    Host            $host;
  proxy_set_header    X-Real-IP       $remote_addr;
  proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-for $remote_addr;
  port_in_redirect off;
  proxy_redirect   http://jira.example.com:8080/jira  /;
  proxy_connect_timeout 300;
 }
 # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
 #
 error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
 location = /50x.html {
  root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
 }
}