writing an alias to a proxy with no buffering

[Cristiano Belloni]

Hi to everybody, beginner here.

I have a location in my nginx configuration file that connects to a unix 
domain proxy to stream a real time video. What I would like is to make 
other locations point to the stream. It seems that the right option for 
this is the alias directive.

So, I have a configuration like this:

server {
   listen 80;
   server_name localhost;

   location /stream {
     proxy_buffering off;
     proxy_pass http://unix:/tmp/demo_socket:/;
   }

   location /mjpeg {
       alias /stream;
   }

}

but, while the /stream location does the right thing, the /mjpeg 
location seems to give back a 404:

~$ wget --server-response -qO- "http://192.168.1.88/mjpeg"

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: nginx/1.0.12
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:07:30 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 169
Connection: keep-alive

Do alias directives not work with the proxy module? If they don't, how 
could I accomplish this? (without redirecting, a lot of streaming 
clients don't support redirect.)


Thank you,
Cristiano.


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Belloni Cristiano
Imavis Srl.
www.imavis.com <http://www.imavis.com>
belloni at imavis.com <mailto://belloni@imavis.com>
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