Nginx for proxy + rewrite

[Pavel Georgiev]

On Wednesday 27 February 2008 22:42:37 Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:27:18PM +0200, Pavel Georgiev wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 February 2008 21:08:45 Igor Sysoev wrote:
> > > 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/$1
> > > >
> > > > I saw this is possible with a simple rewrite but it returns a
> > > > redirect to the client. Is is possible to make nginx to server the
> > > > rewrite as a proxy?
> > >
> > > Or probably, you need X-Accel-Redirect:
> > >
> > > http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxXSendfile
> >
> > What I`m trying to do is to server some location  (/redirect/ in the
> > example above) to an external server. It is doable with this:
> >
> > location /redirect {
> >    rewrite ^/redirect/(.*)$       http://some.domain.com/$1
> > }
> >
> > This however returns a 302 code, what I want is nginx to get the file
> > requested from http://some.domain.com/ and server it to the client, so
> > that the client doesn't have a clue that this was taken from an external
> > server. In other words, I`d like to treat http://some.domain.com as a
> > backend server, but just for a given location.
> >
> > Hope that makes sense. I don't think X-Accel-Redirect is what I need
> > here.
>
> I still do not understand your problem. Probably, you need:
>
>     location / {
>         proxy_pass           http://mydomain.com;
>         proxy_redirect       off;
>         proxy_set_header     Host $host;
>     }
>
>     location /redirect/ {
>         proxy_pass           http://some.domain.com/;
>     }

Thats exactly what I needed, thanks a lot!