Nginx – Reverse proxy for mixed tcp, udp, and http services

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I'm building an architecture that will be hosting various services which individually maybe listening on a variable number of ports that could be mixed protocols.

I want to map these services to unique subdomains and reverse proxy inbound requests to the external ports to corresponding internal ports.

Currently I'm using Nginx with a tcp module installed. This gives me http, and tcp support. However I just found that Nginx doesn't support UDP. It seems like maybe with a custom module I could support UDP but thats a separate issue. I'm also having issues with mapping multiple TCP services to subdomains using the Nginx module.

I'm hoping there is another proxy solution out there that might be better suited for this. Or a combination of tools.

Edit: The only thing I've found that might fit this role is:
http://freecode.com/projects/proxymini
http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz.htm#proxymini

but I can't tell if its unix friendly or windows only and might not be a reverse proxy

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The solution here is not a reverse proxy but DNS

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Try the below config.

Be sure to see the comments in the location = /fossil/ section. Also keep in mind that requests to /fossil/(whatever) become /(whatever), so any urls returned in your content should be /fossil/(whatever) and not /(whatever). If necessary you could use sub_filter on the nginx side to substitute /fossil/(whatever) for /(whatever) when the content is return to the client.

location = /fossil/ {
  # matches /fossil/ query only
  #
  # if Apache isn't configured to serve index.php as the index
  # for /fossil/ uncomment the below rewrite and remove or comment
  # the proxy_pass
  #
  # rewrite /fossil/ /fossil/index.php;
  proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
}

location = /fossil/index.php {
  # matches /fossil/index.php query only
   proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
}

location /fossil/ {
  # matches any query beginning with /fossil/
  proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
}

location /webmin/ {
  # matches any query beginning with /webmin/
  proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:10000/;
}

location / {
  # matches any query, since all queries begin with /, but regular
  # expressions and any longer conventional blocks will be
  # matched first.
  proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001;
}

# locations to be handled by nginx go below

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