Simple Reverse Proxy

This is a simple reverse proxy written in golang. Useful When you don't want to setup something like nginx and just want to get up and running in a dev environment.

How to use

Build

go build

Create a config.json file in the same folder as the program and run the executable.

go-reverse-proxy.exe

Sample config file

{
  "listen": ":80",
  "https": true,
  "cert": "/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem",
  "key": "/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem",
  "proxies": [
    {
      "listen": "/",
      "connect": "http://localhost:8080"
    },
    {
      "listen": "/api/",
      "connect": "http://localhost:5050"
    }
  ]
}

listen : the address you want the reverse proxy to listen on

https : whether or not to use SSL

cert : certificate location

key : key location

proxies : array of objects containing listen address and the destination for each proxy

You can pass as many proxies as you want to proxies array.