Nginx for proxy + rewrite

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:30:47PM +0200, Pavel Georgiev wrote:

> I`ve beed using nxingx as a local balancer for few backend servers:
> 
> 
> http {
>    upstream mydomain.com {
>       server 192.168.8.30; # backend server
>    }
>    server {
>       listen       192.168.10.1:8080;
>       server_name  cmydomain.com;
> 
>       location / {
>          proxy_pass           http://mydomain.com;
>          proxy_redirect       off;
>          proxy_set_header     Host $host;
>       }
>    }
> }
> 
> 
> What I need to do is for a certain url to rewrite it to an external url but 
> serve the requests as a proxy instead of returing a redirect, so this is 
> transparent to the client:
> 
> http://mydomain.com/redirect/(.*)$ should go to http://extranal.comain.com/$1
> 
> I saw this is possible with a simple rewrite but it returns a redirect to the 
> client. Is is possible to make nginx to server the rewrite as a proxy?

I'm not sure that understand your problem, but this may help:

       proxy_pass           http://mydomain.com;

       proxy_redirect       http://mydomain.com/            /;
       proxy_redirect       http://mydomain.com/redirect/   /;


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