Trailing slash rewrite help

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:14:06AM -0400, Kurt Hansen wrote:

> 
> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> >On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 01:28:12AM -0400, Kurt Hansen wrote:
> >  
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I'm using nginx as a reverse proxy to a mod_perl backend server and am 
> >>having trouble with my rewrite rule in the case of a missing trailing 
> >>slash on a subdirectory.
> >>
> >>For example, I want
> >>
> >>www.example.com/action mapped to the example/action/ directory on the 
> >>mod_perl server.
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >
> >Probably, you need just:
> >
> >location / {
> >    proxy_pass http://cweb/example/;
> >}
> >
> >Also, you need to set "Index index.htm" on mod_perl side.
> >
> >  
> Thanks, Igor, that did the trick!
> 
> Thought I was missing something simple...
> 
> Key, too, was getting the mod_perl server to specify the index.htm 
> rather than the nginx server. I used a rewrite rule to do that because 
> my apache/mod_perl with HTML::Mason setup doesn't handle the 
> DirectoryIndex quite right.

It should work, what do you see when you request "/" or "/action/" ?


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