POST Requests and Proxy Behavior

[Guillaume Filion]

Hi Andy,

It looks like a problem I have with my reverse proxy setup.
I was able to correct it by setting the Host HTTP header to the proxy 
request with "proxy_set_header Host $http_host;" just before proxy_pass.

Hope this helps!
GFK's

Andy Madsen a écrit :
> Hi Everyone:
>
> I have a two webservers running nginx behind a load balancer. These 
> two webservers are proxying SSL content from an app server on the LAN 
> address that is not on the load balancer. Configuration is below:
>
> ==================================================
> server {
> listen       443;
> server_name  some.domain.com;
>
> ssl                  on;
> ssl_certificate      /path/to/some_cert.pem;
> ssl_certificate_key  /path/to/some_key.pem;
>
> access_log  /var/log/httpd/nginx_ssl_access_log main;
> #access_log off;
> error_log  /var/log/httpd/nginx_ssl_error_log;
>
> charset utf-8;
>
> location / {
>
>  if (-f $request_filename) {
>    expires max;
>    break;
>  }
>
>  if ($request_filename !~ "\.(js|htc|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$") {
>    proxy_pass https://192.168.2.1;
>  }
>   }
>
> }
> =================================================
>
>
> This works very well for all GET requests, but if I try to post from a 
> non-ssl machine to the load balancer, the proxy tries to serve a file 
> using the LAN address, and obviously fails at https://192.168.2.1. Is 
> there something I'm missing in the reverse proxy for a POST request in 
> my configuration? I haven't been able to find any specific 
> documentation about why a POST wouldn't work, and GET would.
>
> NGINX is great!
>
> Thanks
> Andy
>
>
>
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