I'm a beginner Nginx user trying to proxy the following:
http://subdomain.example.com/mypage/login
TO
http://some_ip_address/login
(not just /login – the site has other contexts too e.g. /static, /api, etc.)
Whilst I can functionally make this work, the user sees http://some_ip_address
in their browser, which I'd like to avoid.
That config looks like this:
worker_processes 1;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 3;
server {
server_name this_server_ip;
location /mypage/ {
proxy_pass http://some_ip_address;
rewrite ^/mypage/(.*)$ http://some_ip_address/$1 last;
}
location / {
root /var/local/directory/;
}
}
}
To try to fix it, I've tried combinations of:
proxy_pass http://some_ip_address/;
(i.e. with trailing slash)proxy_set_header Host $host;
rewrite ^/mypage/(.*)$ /$1 last;
But I either get 404's or serve up the page that's hosted at http://subdomain.example.com
, i.e. rewrite
works but proxy_pass
doesn't.
There are a few similar questions on serverfault but none seem to address my particular flavour of this problem, unfortunately. Examples are this one and that one.
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated, thank you.
Best Answer
You are specifying
this_server_ip
as the hostname for this virtualhost. That means that this virtualhost isn't used for any requests that have a domain name, but your nginx default virtual server is used for requests forhttp://subdomain.example.com/
.You need to change your
server_name
tosubdomain.example.com
, or adddefault_server
to thelisten
directive on thisserver
block and remove it from the nginx default configuration.EDIT: Try this vhost configuration:
That is, you don't need a
rewrite
statement at all, because you are proxying the request to another server.