An excerpt from my nginx reverse-proxy configuration

nginx-excerpt.conf

user  logankoester logankoester;
worker_processes  2;

events {
  worker_connections  2048;
}

http {
  include       mime.types;
  default_type  application/octet-stream;

  sendfile        on;
  tcp_nopush      on;
  tcp_nodelay     off;
  keepalive_timeout  75 20;

  upload_progress proxied 1m;
  client_max_body_size 100m;

  upstream myapp {
    server unix:/tmp/ag-myapp.0.sock;
  }

  server {
    listen 80;
    server_name myapp.dev;
    root /home/logankoester/hack/myapp/public;

    location / {
      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
      proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
      proxy_redirect off;
      proxy_pass http://myapp;
    }
  }
}