nixCraft → Howto → CentOS → CentOS / Redhat: Install nginx As Reverse Proxy Load Balancer How do I configure nginx as failover reverse proxy load balancer in front of two Apache web servers under CentOS / RHEL 5.x? nginx is a Web and Reverse proxy server. Nginx used in front of Apache Web servers. All connections coming from the Internet addressed to one of the Web servers are routed through the n