Add a reverse proxy to heroku

Question

I have a rails app running on heroku at, e.g myapp.herokuapp.com.

Now I want to reverse proxy from myapp.heroku.com/proxy/ to somewhereelse.com/ (i.e: myapp.heroku.com/proxy/stuff is reverse proxifed to somewhereelse.com/stuff) Is that possible on Heroku? How to achieve this?

Answer 1

For anyone coming to this question through a search, this can be done.

Check out https://github.com/ryandotsmith/nginx-buildpack to vendor nginx into your heroku instance. This will place nginx in front of your rails app, and allow you to reverse proxy requests on this domain, having your heroku app configured as apex and allowing somewhereelse.com/stuff go elsewhere.