Internal redirects to upstream

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:54:50PM +0530, Arvind Jayaprakash wrote:

> Is it possible to do an internal redirect to another url within nginx?
> 
> Say I access url "/u1" which is handled by an upstream server. I need to
> be able to return a redirect to url "/u2" which is not a file but needs
> to be sent back to the upstream server (possibly different from the
> first one).
> 
> X-Accel-Redirect seems to be for cases when /u2 maps to a file.

No, X-Accel-Redirect just accepts uri and does internal redirect.  
It has no knowledge of how /u2 will be handled - by static module, 
proxy module, fastcgi or whatever.

Maxim Dounin