Know of any tutorials appropriate for a Linux server noob (I'm comfortable with the Linux command line but haven't done much web deployment other than basic one-click xampp stuff)?
It's quite easy. Install nginx, update the config file, generally found in '/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/'
There are plenty of good nginx config examples out there, but to use it as a reverse proxy you want to do something like:
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
}
You also need to change your ports.conf file for apache to make it run on a different port if you want nginx running on port 80.
