# X-Accel-Redirect **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [March 10, 2010, 11:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/x-accel-redirect/184915 "2010-03-10T11:46:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alberto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@alberto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alberto)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 11:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/x-accel-redirect/184915/1 "2010-03-10T11:46:22Z")
I’m using nginx in two different points. As reverse proxy, and as webserver. 1. Webserver with php fastcgi [http://www.domain.com/file.zip](http://www.domain.com/file.zip), is really a php that stores some stats about our customers downloads. When it has stored all the info it sends an X-Accel-Direct. It works perfectly. 1. Reverse proxy We have setup some nginx in our customers nodes, to they get better latency, speed, etc… Everything works ok. Now the prob is that for earch download, nginx-2 ( reverse proxy ) has to download everythin from nginx-2 ( webserver ) and then upload everything to the client. This generates a lot of traffic. As we only need to get some info about the client, we have thought about storing the download folder into nginx-2, and be able to send the x-accel-redirect from nginx-1 to nginx-2. So the php gets executed in the nginx-1, info stored, and the phisical download done from nginx-2, without transfering gigs and gigs of data. Is there an easy way to rename the X-Accel-Redirect header on nginx-2 so we can sent it from nginx-1 to nginx-2? So nginx-1 works with the standard X-Accel-Redirect header, and nginx-2 with ( example ) X-Local-Redirect. Or another way to accomplish this workflow? Thnx a lot! Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[X-Accel-Redirect](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,62208,62208#msg-62208)** > > I'm using nginx in two different points. As reverse proxy, and as webserver. 1) Webserver with php fastcgi http://www.domain.com/file.zip, is really a php that stores some stats about our customers downloads. When it has stored all the info it send ---
**Author:** ![alberto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@alberto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alberto)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/x-accel-redirect/184915/2 "2010-03-10T12:47:15Z")
Hello! On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 05:45:34AM -0500, Alberto wrote: […] > As we only need to get some info about the client, we have > thought about storing the download folder into nginx-2, and be > able to send the x-accel-redirect from nginx-1 to nginx-2. fastcgi\_ignore\_header X-Accel-Redirect; fastcgi\_pass\_header X-Accel-Redirect; See here for details (in Russian, wiki has no translation yet - feel free to add one; Google Translate is your friend): > **[Модуль ngx\_http\_fastcgi\_module](http://nginx.org/ru/docs/http/ngx_http_fastcgi_module.html)** > **[Модуль ngx\_http\_fastcgi\_module](http://nginx.org/ru/docs/http/ngx_http_fastcgi_module.html)** Maxim D. ---
**Author:** ![alberto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@alberto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alberto)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/x-accel-redirect/184915/3 "2010-03-10T13:00:08Z")
Thnx, this one should work!!! In the doc is not clear, but I suppose i have to add both. fastcgi\_ignore\_headers, just to not process the header, and fastcgi\_pass\_header to sent it to the next node. Or does fastcgi\_pass\_header already ignores it? Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: X-Accel-Redirect](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,62208,62217#msg-62217)** > > I'm using nginx in two different points. As reverse proxy, and as webserver. 1) Webserver with php fastcgi http://www.domain.com/file.zip, is really a php that stores some stats about our customers downloads. When it has stored all the info it send ---
**Author:** ![alberto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@alberto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alberto)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/x-accel-redirect/184915/4 "2010-03-10T14:17:59Z")
Thnx a lot for it worked flawlessly 🙂 We have reduced our traffic from 280 mbit / sec to 140 mbit on some servers 😃 Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: X-Accel-Redirect](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,62208,62240#msg-62240)** > > I'm using nginx in two different points. As reverse proxy, and as webserver. 1) Webserver with php fastcgi http://www.domain.com/file.zip, is really a php that stores some stats about our customers downloads. When it has stored all the info it send ---
**Author:** ![alberto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@alberto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alberto)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/x-accel-redirect/184915/5 "2010-03-10T13:11:50Z")
Hello! On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 06:59:27AM -0500, Alberto wrote: > Thnx, this one should work!!! > > In the doc is not clear, but I suppose i have to add both. > > fastcgi\_ignore\_headers, just to not process the header, and > fastcgi\_pass\_header to sent it to the next node. Yes. I wrote exact snippet you have to add to appropriate location with fastcgi\_pass. > Or does fastcgi\_pass\_header already ignores it? No. Maxim D.