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Nginx is a powerful web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy for your application. Simply put, a reverse proxy is a server that sits in between a client and a server.

Reverse proxies do have a lot of benefits: Security: Reverse proxies provide security in the sense that it protects the identity of the application server.

In this article, I will show you how to integrate Nginx as a reverse proxy for a laravel application.

In this article, we have covered some basic concepts of reverse proxies and how to set up one for a laravel based url shortener application.