nginx_reverse_proxy.conf

server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on;

        server_name         [host].dev;

        root /Users/[docroot];
        index index.html index.htm;

        location / {
                # First attempt to serve request as file, then
                # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
                # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
                # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
        }

        location /api/ {
                proxy_pass http://[url]/api/;
                proxy_redirect http://[url]/api/ $scheme://$host/api/;
                # HTTP auth?
                # proxy_hide_header "WWW-Authenticate";
                # base64.b64encode("username:password".encode("ascii"))
                # proxy_set_header Authorization "Basic [base64here]";
                add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*";
        }
}