Config help - Reverse Proxy for Virtual Directories

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:17:17PM -0700, Gavin Kistner wrote:

> Let me try this again, more tersely:
> 
> Why does this (pared down) config...
>   http://pastie.org/395896
> ...give me a 404 when I use a URL like...
>   http://localhost/ObjJob/foo
> ...instead of proxying to port 9901 as desired?

    location ^~ /ObjJob {
      root /var/www/phrogz.net/ObjJob/public/;
      rewrite ^/ObjJob(/.+) $1 break;

-     rewrite ^/ObjJob(/.+) $1 break;
+     rewrite ^/ObjJob(/.+) $1;

as the "break" stops script execution and script does not run next "if"s:

      if (-f $request_filename) {
        break;
      }
      if (!-f $request_filename) {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:9901;
        break;
      }
    }

> What's the right way to set up a virtual directory like this?

No. The right way is

    locaiton /ObjJob/ {
        alias /var/www/phrogz.net/ObjJob/public/;
        error_page  404 = @9901;
    }

    location @9901 {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:9901;
    }

or if you use modern try_files:

    locaiton /ObjJob/ {
        alias /var/www/phrogz.net/ObjJob/public/;
        try_files  $uri  @9901;
    }

    location @9901 {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:9901;
    }

> The only 'fix' I've found so far is to comment out lines 29 and 32,  
> causing all static files to be proxied and served by the proxy app  
> instead.


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