nginxconf

• This project aims to:
  • Parse nginx configuration files
  • Parse custom JSON files
  • Generate valid and semantically correct nginx config files from these JSON files

Routes JSON schema

{
  "routes": [
    {
      "host_endpoint": "/",
      "proxy_to": "http://www.google.com",
      "append_path": true
    }
  ]
}

• host_endpoint: String The path on the host machine running nginx
• proxy_to: String The endpoint to redirect to
• append_path: Boolean Determines whether or not the request path should be appended to the proxy path
  • Ex: { "append_path": true, "host_endpoint": "/peterlugers", "proxy_to": "http://www.yelp.com"
    • Request made to http://HOST/peterlugers redirects to http://www.yelp.com/peterlugers
  • Ex: { "append_path": false, "host_endpoint": "/google/search_engine", "proxy_to": "http://www.google.com" }
    • Request made to http://HOST/google/search_engine redirects to http://www.google.com

Usage

• Run go run main.go [input file]
• The generated conf file will be output to test.conf in your working directory

nginx testing

• After running the go run command and generating the test.conf file, run make proxy-test in order to run an nginx Docker container with the conf file mounted.
• The container will be listening on 0.0.0.0:80, so pointing your browser toward localhost/[path] will allow you to test your proxy settings.