## Setting Up a Simple Proxy Server

One of the frequent uses of nginx is setting it up as a proxy server, which means a server that receives requests, passes them to the proxied servers, retrieves responses from them, and sends them to the clients.

```
server {
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
    }

    location /images/ {
        root /data;
    }
}
```

Source: https://nginx.org/en/docs/beginners_guide.html

The module page listed `proxy_pass` and `proxy_read_timeout` (`focusMatched:true`,
`focus:weak`). The beginner page was `focusMatched:false`. Prefer
`items[].excerpt`. Do not cite `combined` as a focused answer. Do not invent
`proxy_read_timeout` values.