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dakini
Asked: 2020-06-13 23:39:56 +0800 CST

Nginx proxypass to app folder's subfolder works only with trailing slash

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There is a partially related question here but it doesn't help me.

For site.com I have

location /sub/ {
    proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding "";
    proxy_pass http://192.168.1.1/ ;
}

The 192.168.1.1 IP has a VM with an Apache server on it.

Now when I go to either site.com/sub or site.com/sub/, it works fine as expected.

But when I go to site.com/sub/sub1, it redirects to 192.168.1.1/sub1/ whereas site.com/sub/sub1/ (with trailing slash) works as expected.

Using a proxy_redirect doesn't seem to make a difference. I also tried using with a regex but to no avail.

location ~/sub/?(.*)$ {
        proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding "";
        proxy_pass http://192.168.1.1/$1 ;
    }

Setting the header Host just redirects to site.com/sub1/.

Nginx logs show a 301 redirect.

I can easily solve the problem by simply creating a new location block for /sub/sub1/ but I would really like to be able to handle it in the same block.

As site.com/sub/sub1/ with the trailing slash already works fine, how can I get site.com/sub/sub1 to work correctly instead of redirecting to 192.168.1.1/sub1? What am I missing here?

nginx proxypass

1 Answers

  1. I believe I may have solved the problem by using a proxy_redirect. What I had tried first (when posting the question) was a proxy redirect for

    proxy_redirect https://example.com/ https://example.com/sub

    What worked was

    proxy_redirect http://example.com/ http://example.com/sub

    I got to the answer by carefully examining the nginx logs and the curl -I output

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