URL rewrite plus proxy pass problem

[Roxis]

On Monday 30 July 2007, Toby DiPasquale wrote:
> location /path/ {
>     rewrite   ^/path/(.*)$	$1	break;
>     proxy_pass			http://127.0.0.1:8080;
> }
>
> However, when I click on an href="/path" link, I am sent back to the
> index page. Why is it not proxying the rewritten URL back to the
> instance on port 8080? How can I make it do that? Thanks for all your
> help.

"/path" is not "/path/"