Hi, On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 10:08:45AM +0100, Antonio Quartulli wrote: > On 18/03/2026 23:55, Greg Troxel wrote: > > (It would be great if someone could do a blog post or docs change to > > explain how to configure nginx to function as a proxy to reach an > > openvpn server on the same host, so that the connection from the client > > to the server would just be on 443/tcp. Critically, this should work > > without interfering with the web server, so no remapping /.) > > It sounds as if you are looking for the --port-share option? > It's been there for a while (way before multisocket was implemented) and it > seems to be what you are looking for.
I think he wants it the other way round - connections go to nginx, and
*if* openvpn, then forward to openvpn.
No idea if this can be done today - there are some patches floating around
to add various aspects of PROXY PROTOCOL, so maybe it can, maybe not.
gert
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