Problem with double slashes in URL when using nginx as proxy

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:37:15AM -0400, alexk wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have web server where nginx is using as proxy for PHP scripts and web
> server for static files. I use the following configuration:
> 
> server {
>         listen 80;
>         server_name *********.com;
>         access_log /var/log/nginx/*********.com.access_log;
>         location ~*
> \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|tar|wav|bmp|rtf|swf|ico|flv|txt|xml|docx|xlsx)(\?\.+)?$
> {
>                 root /var/www/**********.com/public/;
>                 index index.html index.php;
>                 expires max;
>                 access_log off;
>         }
>         location ~ /\.ht {
>                 deny all;
>         }
>         location / {
>                 proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;

-                 proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
+                 proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;

>                 proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
>                 proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-for $remote_addr;
>                 proxy_set_header Host $host;
>                 proxy_connect_timeout 60;
>                 proxy_send_timeout 90;
>                 proxy_read_timeout 90;
>                 proxy_redirect off;
>                 proxy_set_header Connection close;
>                 proxy_pass_header Content-Type;
>                 proxy_pass_header Content-Disposition;
>                 proxy_pass_header Content-Length;
>         }
> }
> 
> Also there is apache2 running on port 8080 and process all non static
> requests.
> 
> The problem in following - when I request
> /en/all/all/filtered/246/1/date///-1//0 in logs of apache I see:
> 
> **.**.*.*** - - [27/Jul/2010:12:33:48 +0000] "GET
> /en/all/all/filtered/246/1/date/-1/0 HTTP/1.0" 200 11548 "-"
> "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8)
> Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 GTB7.1"
> 
> Please notice that there is no double slashes already. Apache gets
> "/en/all/all/filtered/246/1/date/-1/0" instead of requested
> "/en/all/all/filtered/246/1/date///-1//0". And it creates problems in
> the code.
> 
> And when I request Apache directly with
> :8080/en/all/all/filtered/246/1/date///-1//0 it just works Ok. So I
> suppose double slashes are missed somewhere in nginx.
> 
> I have nginx/0.7.67 installed.
> 
> Any ideas will be appreciated. Thanks!


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