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Using nginx to Customize Control of Your Hosted App

Open source application diversity is both the biggest boon in the free and open source software (FOSS) movement and its greatest hindrance to adoption. You don’t always own the application you’re consuming, and it often comes with certain opinions and limitations imposed by the software author — either intentionally or otherwise.

By filtering data into a Layer 7 (or, application-level) capable processor, you can manipulate, encrypt and decrypt, redirect, and otherwise control how data destined to your services can flow and behave.

So let’s look at three ways you can use nginx to customize the behaviors of your application in Heroku.

With this, we can customize this application however we like.