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Configuring the Reverse Proxy

Elastic Beanstalk uses nginx as the reverse proxy to map your application to your Elastic Load Balancing load balancer on port 80. Elastic Beanstalk provides a default nginx configuration that you can either extend or override completely with your own configuration.

To extend Elastic Beanstalk's default nginx configuration, add .conf configuration files to a folder named .ebextensions/nginx/conf.d/ in your application source bundle. Elastic Beanstalk's nginx configuration includes .conf files in this folder automatically.

~/workspace/my-app/
|-- .ebextensions
|   `-- nginx
|       `-- conf.d
|           `-- myconf.conf
`-- web.jar

To override Elastic Beanstalk's default nginx configuration completely, include a configuration in your source bundle at .ebextensions/nginx/nginx.conf:

~/workspace/my-app/
|-- .ebextensions
|   `-- nginx
|       `-- nginx.conf
`-- web.jar

If you override Elastic Beanstalk's nginx configuration, add the following line to your nginx.conf to pull in Elastic Beanstalk's configurations for Enhanced Health Reporting and Monitoring, automatic application mappings, and static files.

 include conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/*.conf;