Basic Reverse Proxy

A minimal HTTP reverse proxy with one listener and one upstream cluster.

Category: Practical
Task: Forward HTTP requests to an upstream

Prerequisites: Praxis runtime; An HTTP backend reachable from the proxy

Expected outcome: Requests received on the configured listener are forwarded to the backend.

Run it: Use ghcr.io/praxis-proxy/praxis:0.7.2 and follow the first reverse-proxy tutorial to mount and start the configuration.

This configuration comes from the selected release. The example has not been run here; external services are not bundled.

Download the source file.

# Basic HTTP Reverse Proxy
#
# Minimal config: one listener, one upstream, default filter chain.
#
listeners:
  - name: default
    address: "127.0.0.1:8080"
    filter_chains: [main]

filter_chains:
  - name: main
    filters:
      - filter: router
        routes:
          - path_prefix: "/"
            cluster: backend

      - filter: load_balancer
        clusters:
          - name: backend
            endpoints:
              - "127.0.0.1:3000"

insecure_options:
  allow_private_endpoints: true # example proxies to local backends