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steveyang
Asked: 2012-08-24 11:30:28 +0800 CST

How to direct the visitor to certain http service according to their `host`?

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I want to direct the users to different web services with nginx configuration.

The scenario is for the internal users with host name from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255 I want to serve them some web service but for the other external visitor I don't want this to be realised.

I know I could use IP_TABLES to enable this feature, but I use IP_TABLE rules mainly for firewall purpose, I don't want to mix it with this configuration.

Is there any configuration available to me in the nginx.conf?

nginx

2 Answers

  1. You can use the GEO module together with a map directive:

    http {
  geo $special_service {
    default 0;
    192.168.1.0/24 1;
  }
  server {
    if ($special_service) {
      return 302 $scheme://$server_name/special-service/;
    }
  }
}
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  2. Create a separate location block that covers your sensitive content.

    Keep in mind that configuration directives don't inherit; you'll need to include in the new block anything that's in the existing `location that's needed for your content.

    location /path/to/sensitive/stuff {
    # any other config that you need goes here..
    # ...
    allow 192.168.1.0/24;
    deny all;
}
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