Name of upstream is returned to a client and not resolved to a server

[Francis Daly]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:29:18AM +0200, Tobias Hipp wrote:

Hi there,

> location = / {
>                 proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
>                 proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
>                 proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
>                 proxy_pass
> http://myupstream/home/index?layoutTheme=mysubdomain_theme;
>         }
> 
> This still works fine. But when i click a link on that webpage, leading
> to the startpage of the website (the link is something like
> http://mysubdomain.mysite.com/home/index?layoutTheme=mysubdomain_theme)
> I get an error message.

> A Chromium based browser shows "Error 105 (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED):"
> and Firefox tells me, that the server www.myupstream.com could not be
> found.

That sounds like the links are referring to http://myupstream, and the
two browsers have different error reporting/correcting behaviours.

If you view the source returned from the original
http://mysubdomain.mysite.com/ request, you may see that there.

> Can anyone help me locate the mistake I made in my configuration?

I guess that the tomcats are building "full" links instead of relative
ones. Or else they are issuing http redirects, and are not using the
server name you want them to.

Possibly adding

  proxy_set_header Host       $host;

or any variation that uses the appropriate "mysubdomain.mysite.com" 
into the two location{}s will cause the tomcats to build full links
using the public hostname.

If you look at the output of "curl -i" or each request, you might see
exactly what is going on.

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