Trailing slash rewrite help

[Kurt Hansen]

Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 01:28:12AM -0400, Kurt Hansen wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm using nginx as a reverse proxy to a mod_perl backend server and am 
>> having trouble with my rewrite rule in the case of a missing trailing 
>> slash on a subdirectory.
>>
>> For example, I want
>>
>> www.example.com/action mapped to the example/action/ directory on the 
>> mod_perl server.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Probably, you need just:
>
> location / {
>     proxy_pass http://cweb/example/;
> }
>
> Also, you need to set "Index index.htm" on mod_perl side.
>
>   
Thanks, Igor, that did the trick!

Thought I was missing something simple...

Key, too, was getting the mod_perl server to specify the index.htm 
rather than the nginx server. I used a rewrite rule to do that because 
my apache/mod_perl with HTML::Mason setup doesn't handle the 
DirectoryIndex quite right.

Take care,

Kurt