trailing slash in location

[Igor Sysoev]

On Nov 18, 2012, at 17:25 , amodpandey wrote:

> Please help me understand
> 
> The below works
> 
>     location /stats/ {
>        proxy_pass http://example.com;
>     }
> 
> or 
> 
>     location /stats {
>        proxy_pass http://example.com;
>     }
> 
> or
> 
>     location /stats {
>        proxy_pass http://example.com/stats;
>     }
> 
> or
> 
>     location /stats {
>        proxy_pass http://example.com/stats/;
>     }
> 
> or
> 
>     location /stats/ {
>        proxy_pass http://example.com/stats/;
>     }
> 
> But this does not work
> 
>     location /stats/ {
>        proxy_pass http://example.com/stats;
>     }
> 
> Smlly when stats is an upstream
> 
> This works
> 
>   location /stats {
>     proxy_pass http://stats;
>   }
> 
> but this does not
> 
>   location /stats {
>     proxy_pass http://stats/;
>   }

It should work. Probably "/stats/" > "/stats" does not work.

> What difference it makes when we have uri in the proxy_pass?

It does not work because nginx changes /stats/SOME/PAGE to /statsSOME/PAGE.

Please read for details:
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_pass


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Igor Sysoev
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