I want to configure nginx as a reverse proxy for different webapps hosted on a tomcat.
Basically, all requests to http://localhost:80/A/some/other/params (nginx is running on port 80) should be forwarded to http://localhost:8080/webappA/some/other/params (tomcat is running on port 8080, serving webappA).
I have tried this:
...
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
location /A/ {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8080/webappA/;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
}
...
with no luck, since it forwards requests to http://localhost:8080/A//some/other/params/
I can't figure out from the proxy_pass docs how to have 1 location per local webapp. I don't want to deploy the webappA as root, since there will be multiple webapps in my tomcat instance. Thanks
EDIT:
I suspect there is also a problem also with the tomcat configuration, but can't find out where, since the proxyName and the proxyPort match the nginx' ones:
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
connectionTimeout="20000"
proxyName="localhost"
proxyPort="80"
redirectPort="8443" />
The full nginx configuration is at this gist.
EDIT2: With further investigation with a minimal configuration, I learned that this proxying works.
My problem is instead related to add CORS headers, and the described way with ifs inside a location block is not working for me (nginx 1.6.2). I'll add cors headers from a tomcat filter.
