Why? Nginx is powerful and handy, with some tweaks, it can be used as a personal webserver that is trivial to integrate using unix sockets with a main nginx. First of all, do, as 'root': su -c 'gpasswd -a '"${USER}"' nginx' # command above assumes nginx workers are running # under 'nginx' user Then log off and log on. The main nginx configuration should work with a snippet like: location ~ /test/ { proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_pass http://unix:/tmp/nginx-1000.socket; } location ~ /test$ { rewrite ^(.*)$ $1/ permanent; } Exposing the socket with socat, for testing: socat tcp-l:3307,reuseaddr,fork,bind=127.0.0.1 unix:/tmp/nginx-1000.socket Then just browse to http://127.0.0.1:3307/ and http://127.0.0.1:3307/test/. **************** For those in jurisdictions that recognize the public domain, nginx-user-unix-socket is placed into the public domain. For those in jurisdictions that do not recognize the public domain, nginx-user-unix-socket is released under the ISC License. See LICENSE for a copy of the ISC license. Legalese taken from https://github.com/ibara/vce, many thanks to Brian Callahan.