Setting up an Nginx reverse proxy is not a big deal at all. All you have to do is install the cPanel “Nginxadmin” plugin and which will set up an Nginx reverse proxy in your cPanel server.

Please follow the below steps.

1) Setup “Remote Access Key”.

Login to WHM.

Main >> Cluster/Remote Access >> Setup Remote Access Key.

Then click “Generate New Key”.

2) Install Nginxadmin

cd /opt
wget http://nginxcp.com/latest/nginxadmin.tar
tar xf nginxadmin.tar
cd publicnginx
./nginxinstaller install

You may get the following errors.

./nginxinstaller install
 /usr/local/src/publicnginx
 Welcome to the Nginx Admin installer......Starting Install
 Generating vhosts...
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/scripts/createvhosts.py", line 2, in ?
 import yaml
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PyYAML-3.10-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/yaml/__init__.py", line 26
 SyntaxError: 'yield' not allowed in a 'try' block with a 'finally' clause
 Installing WHM interface...
 deploying booster rockets
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/local/src/publicnginx/nginxinstaller2", line 9, in ?
 import createvhosts
 File "/usr/local/src/publicnginx/createvhosts.py", line 2, in ?
 import yaml
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PyYAML-3.10-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/yaml/__init__.py", line 26
 SyntaxError: 'yield' not allowed in a 'try' block with a 'finally' clause

Don’t worry, “Nginxadmin” does provide a script to fix this issue.

Please follow the below steps.

cd /opt
wget http://nginxcp.com/latest/nginxadmin.tar
tar xf nginxadmin.tar
cd publicnginx
./pythonfix

After that, you can run the installer as per bellow,

./nginxinstaller install

It will install the Nginxadmin plugin in your system. Just restart Apache to activate the plugin.

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

So that’s how you set up cPanel Nginx.