Need to proxypass to different servers.

Andreas Weber senior.weber at gmail.com
Tue Mar 19 14:41:03 UTC 2013


Hi,

Im not expert but i think you must specify /cms BEFORE / because "/" will
match everything

best regards

andreas


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2013/3/19 Geo P.C. <pcgeopc at gmail.com>

> Thanks for your reply. Please see this:
>
>
> In Proxy server we have the setup as follows:
>
>
>
> server {
>
>   listen 80;
>
>                  server_name geotest.com;
>
>                  proxy_buffering on;
>
>  proxy_redirect     off;
>
>                 proxy_set_header   Host             $host;
>
>                 proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
>
>                  proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For
> $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
>
> location / {
>
>                                 proxy_pass       http://192.168.0.1/;  #app1
> server
>
> }
>
> location /cms {
>
>                                 proxy_pass       http://192.168.0.2/;   #
> app2 server
>
> }
>
> }
>
> Now while accessing the url the result are as follows:
>
>
>
> 1.       geotest.com à Working fine getting the contents of app1 server
>
> 2.       geotest.com/a1 à Working fine getting the contents of app1 server
>
> 3.       geotest.com/cms à Not working. Site proxypass to app2 server but
> we are getting a 404 page.
>
> 4.       geotest.com/cmsssss àSame as above result.
>
>
>
> For your information the cms application running app2 server is graphite
> server and you can find the nginx configuration file from the url:
> http://www.frlinux.eu/?p=199 in which we use the server name as
> geotest.com
>
>
>
> So can you please help us on it.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Geo
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Francis Daly <francis at daoine.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 09:25:09AM +0530, Geo P.C. wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> > We have 3 servers with Nginx as webserver. The setup is as follows:
>>
>> > So in proxy server we need to setup as while accessing geotest.com and
>> all
>> > its subdirectories like geotest.com/* it should go to app server 1
>> except
>> > while accessing geotest.com/cms and its subdirectories it should go to
>> app
>> > server2.
>> >
>> > Please let us know how we can configure it.
>>
>> "location /cms" should have "proxy_pass" to app2, "location /" should have
>> "proxy_pass" to app1. Almost exactly as you show. Except that you spell
>> "cms" "ui", for some reason.
>>
>> > In proxy server we setup as follows but is not working:
>>
>> Be specific.
>>
>> What one request do you make that does not give the response that you
>> expect? What response do you get instead?
>>
>> Other things: you must set the world up so that the browser actually
>> gets to your proxy server when requesting geotest.com. That's outside
>> of anything nginx can do.
>>
>> You must set things up so that nginx actually gets to your app2 server
>> when...
>>
>> >                                 proxy_pass http://app2.com;
>>
>> ...using the name app2.com. That needs a working resolver, or a
>> configured
>> upstream block. Or just use the IP address directly here.
>>
>> And you will *probably* want to make sure that everything on app2 knows
>> that it is effectively being served below /cms, as otherwise any links
>> to other resources on that server may not work as you want.
>>
>> (And note that "location /cms" and "location /cms/" do different things,
>> and may not both be what you want.)
>>
>>         f
>> --
>> Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org
>>
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