monit rewrite

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:02:35AM +0200, António P. P. Almeida wrote:
> On 26 Set 2012 23h56 CEST, appa at perusio.net wrote:
> 
> > On 26 Set 2012 21h00 CEST, aweber at comcast.net wrote:
> >
> >> OK, I am positive this is easy for you experienced nginx users!
> >>
> >> I have a backend app server setup and am using nginx for 
> >> caching/proxy/ssl-termination.
> >>
> >> I would like to use the "default" server (listening on 443) to
> >> redirect the url https://host/monit to the server's monit-mini-http
> >> server (and continue to use it for ssl termination).  so I need to
> >> direct the backend to http://localhost:2812/.
> >
> >
> > Very basic. No rewrites.
> >
> > location ^~ /monit {
> > location ~* ^/monit/(?<monit_request_uri>.*)$ {
> > proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2812/$monit_request_uri;
> > proxy_set_header Host $host;
> > } 
> 
> Err, make that:
> 
> location ^~ /monit {
>    location ~* ^/monit(?<monit_request_uri>.*)$ {
>        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2812/$monit_request_uri;
>        proxy_set_header Host $host;
> } 
> 
> This way https://myserver/monit won't give a 404.

The regex is not required:

location ^~ /monit/ {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2812/;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
} 

Requests to "/monit" will be redirected to "/monit/" automatically.


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Igor Sysoev
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