path-based reverse proxy

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 05:25:25AM -0400, cantabile wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new to nginx and I'm looking for a path-based reverse-proxy.
> Here's my setup.
> 
> nginx server has $PUB_IP, listening to port 80
> I have two webservers with $IP1 and $IP2
> 
> I want to access my main server from a browser with http://$PUB_IP and
> the second server with http://$PUB_IP/myapp
> 
> I can't find how to do it.
> 
> I tried defining two servers in sites-available, default and myapp, but
> since they listen on the same port, I always have the same server with
> both http://$pub_ip and http://$pub_ip/myapp. Seems logical to me since
> nothing can tell nginx wich server it was supposed to redirect to. 
> 
> I have tried to put another location in site-available/default, like
> this
> 
> server {
> ...
> location / {
>            proxy_pass http://$IP1
>            }
> 
> location /myapp {
>            proxy_pass http://$IP2
>            }
> }
> 
> But that doesn't  work. I can only have the main page of site2, not even
> the images in the same directoriy. And by the way that looks wrong,
> 'cause site2 isn't another directory of site1, it's another
> webserver...

The problem that images in $IP2's HTML has links something like
<img src="/..."> while you need <img src="/myapp/...">.


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