path-based reverse proxy

UnclePhil koenigphil at gmail.com
Sun Sep 5 23:28:44 MSD 2010


Try with the location  in reverse orde ;
More specific first, root at last position

I had a similar problem and this was solving it

Unclephil

On Sep 4, 11:25 am, "cantabile" <nginx-fo... at nginx.us> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to nginx and I'm looking for a path-based reverse-proxy.
> Here's my setup.
>
> nginx server has $PUB_IP, listening to port 80
> I have two webservers with $IP1 and $IP2
>
> I want to access my main server from a browser with http://$PUB_IP and
> the second server with http://$PUB_IP/myapp
>
> I can't find how to do it.
>
> I tried defining two servers in sites-available, default and myapp, but
> since they listen on the same port, I always have the same server with
> both http://$pub_ip and http://$pub_ip/myapp. Seems logical to me since
> nothing can tell nginx wich server it was supposed to redirect to.
>
> I have tried to put another location in site-available/default, like
> this
>
> server {
> ...
> location / {
>            proxy_pass http://$IP1
>            }
>
> location /myapp {
>            proxy_pass http://$IP2
>            }
>
> }
>
> But that doesn't  work. I can only have the main page of site2, not even
> the images in the same directoriy. And by the way that looks wrong,
> 'cause site2 isn't another directory of site1, it's another
> webserver...
>
> So could somebody give me an example or a little help with that ?
>
> Thx a lot !
>
> PS : I have no access to the dns. I can't play with the names likewww.site1.comandwww.site2.com
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum:http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,127024,127024#msg-127024
>
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