Forwarding port 80 to 8080 using NGINX

I'm using LEMP stack and Node JS on my debian server. Nginx works on port 80 and Node JS on 8080. I created new subdomain: cdn.domain.com for nodejs app. Currently I can access to Node JS application only like cdn.domain.com:8080/. What I want to do is to configure Nginx so that, when I enter to cdn.domain.com I can get app working on port 80. I think it can be done using nginx upstream. But I can't figure out how.

NGINX supports WebSockets by allowing a tunnel to be setup between a client and a backend server. In order for NGINX to send the Upgrade request from the client to the backend server, Upgrade and Connection headers must be set explicitly. For example:

# WebSocket proxying
map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
    default         upgrade;
    ''              close;
}


server {
    listen 80;

    # The host name to respond to
    server_name cdn.domain.com;

    location / {
        # Backend nodejs server
        proxy_pass          http://127.0.0.1:8080;
        proxy_http_version  1.1;
        proxy_set_header    Upgrade     $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header    Connection  $connection_upgrade;
    }
}

Source: http://nginx.com/blog/websocket-nginx/

This is how you can achieve this.

upstream {
    nodeapp 127.0.0.1:8080;
}

server {
    listen 80;

    # The host name to respond to
    server_name cdn.domain.com;

    location /(.*) {
        proxy_pass http://nodeapp/$1$is_args$args;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-Port $server_port;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-Scheme $scheme;
    }
}

You can also use this configuration to load balance amongst multiple Node processes like so:

upstream {
    nodeapp 127.0.0.1:8081;
    nodeapp 127.0.0.1:8082;
    nodeapp 127.0.0.1:8083;
}

Where you are running your node server on ports 8081, 8082 and 8083 in separate processes. Nginx will easily load balance your traffic amongst these server processes.