Reverse proxy to a tomcat service (folder name)

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:59:41AM -0400, kheraud wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am breaking my head against the wall since his morning on this issue
> maybe you can help me.
> 
> I have a single physical server hosting tomcat WARs and also other
> standalone services. I use subdomains and Nginx to route to the
> requested service.
> Tomcat append to URIs the name of the deployed WAR. For example, if I
> deploy myApp.war on my tomcat server, I can access it through
> http://mydomain.com:8080/myApp/.
> What I want is to acces my service through http://myApp.domain.com and
> navigate my service AND whitout having http://myApp.domain.com/myApp/ !
> 
> I wrote this conf :
> 
> server {
>         server_name myapp.domain.com;
>         root /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/myapp;
>         access_log /var/log/nginx/myapp.domain.com_access.log;
>         error_log /var/log/nginx/myapp.domain.com_error.log;
> 
>         location / {
>                 proxy_pass              http://localhost:8080/myapp;
>                 proxy_redirect          off;
>                 proxy_set_header        Host            $host;
>                 proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP       $remote_addr;
>                 proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For
> $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
>         }
> 
>         location /myapp {
>                 proxy_pass              http://localhost:8080/myapp;
>                 proxy_redirect          off;
>                 proxy_set_header        Host            $host;
>                 proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP       $remote_addr;
>                 proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For
> $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
>         }
> }
> 
> If I access http://myapp.domain.com/, my browser rewrites this url to
> http://myapp.domain.com/myapp/. I would like to avoid the  /myapp/
> repeated.
> 
> Do you have hints or comments to help me ?

Probably this:

   location / {
       proxy_pass        http://myapp.domain.com:8080/myapp/;
       proxy_set_header  Host             $host;
       proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
       proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
       sub_filter        /myapp/          /;
   }


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Igor Sysoev