SSI goes to backend

Igor Sysoev is at rambler-co.ru
Fri Sep 4 18:44:40 MSD 2009


On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 05:34:21PM +0300, Marcus Clyne wrote:

> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:14:42PM +0300, Marcus Clyne wrote:
> >
> >  
> >>Hi,
> >>    
> >>>What if for example you want to ssi from a different domain name so
> >>>the html is served from http://www.domain.com/ but the ssi uses
> >>>www.other.com (which is also hosted on the same nginx instance).
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>      
> >>You could set the SSI command to
> >>
> >><!--# include virtual="/domain2/oth-domain-url" -->
> >>
> >>Then in your config have
> >>
> >>location /domain2/ {
> >>   internal;   # if you don't set this location to internal then your 
> >>web server could be used as a public proxy to that domain
> >>   proxy_pass    http://domain2.com;
> >>   ...
> >>}
> >>
> >>This would make a sub-request for http://domain2.com/oth-domain-url.
> >>
> >>AFAIK you need to set the domain2 statically in your config file, i.e. 
> >>you can't use a regex in the domain name.
> >>    
> >
> >No, you may use regex and then resolve a name:
> >
> >resvoler 127.0.0.1;
> >
> >location /p/(\w+) {
> >     proxy_pass   http://$1;
> >}
> >  
> I tried that, but am getting the following message in the error log:
> 
> 2009/09/04 17:10:10 [error] 18834#0: *1 zero length URI to proxy, 
> client: 127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET /ssi/test.shtml 
> HTTP/1.1", subrequest: "/proxy-google/google.com", host: "localhost"

- /proxy-google/google.com
+ /proxy-google/google.com/

> The locations I've tried are:
> 
> location ~ /proxy-google/(\w+)
> location ~ /proxy-google/(.+)
> 
> with proxy_pass http://$1;
> 
> and the error message is the same.
> 
> I even tried doing
> 
> location ~ /proxy-google/(.+) {
>    set $proxy_url  $1;
>    proxy_pass    http://$proxy_url;
> }
> 
> 
> and that gave the same message.
> 
> Doing a statically-defined proxy-pass like above works without the 
> resolver directive.  I don't have a DNS server running, but I wouldn't 
> have thought that I'd need one, would I?
> 
> This is true in 0.8.11 and 0.8.13.
> 
> Marcus.
> 
> 

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