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milosgajdos
Asked: 2013-02-26 18:27:11 +0800 CST

Nginx location and rewrite

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I'm dealing with the following issue and I can't figure out to resolve it. I have HAproxy in front of app server farm which are running nginx. HAproxy has some httpchecks enabled for backend services - the checks are hitting /health_check URI:

option httpchk HEAD /health_check HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:\ staging.example.com

What I can't figure out is how to avoid logging for Virtualhosts which have permanent rewrites enabled for all URIs. Here's the example

server {
  listen      8000;
  server_name "";

  location = /health_check {
    access_log off;
    return 200;
  }

  rewrite     ^(.*)   https://staging.example.com$1 permanent;
}

I thought the above location directive would disable the logs for given URI but I was wrong - it's being completely ignored.

is there any way how to acomplish something like this ??

nginx

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Put the rewrite in a location / block.

    location / {
    rewrite     ^(.*)   https://staging.example.com$1 permanent;
}

    This way, it will match all URLs except for /health_check which has a more specific location.

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  2. You could also return rather than rewrite using a location / block if you don't need the regex.

    location / {
    return   301   $scheme://staging.example.com$request_uri;
}
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