Rewriting and proxy problem

[Sergio Belkin]

2013/5/27 Sergio Belkin <sebelk at gmail.com>

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> 2013/5/25 Francis Daly <francis at daoine.org>
>
>> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 02:39:58PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> > I am completeley newbie to nginx
>>
>> Welcome.
>>
>> The nginx config follows its own logic, which may not match your previous
>> experiences. When you understand that, you'll have a much better chance
>> of knowing the configuration you are looking for.
>>
>>
> Yup, I've began to read the documentation :)
>
>
>> One important feature is that one request is handled in one
>> location. Another is that one http request does not necessarily correspond
>> to one nginx request.
>>
>> In this case...
>>
>> you make the request for /demoX, and the best-match location is "location
>> /demo", and so that is the one that is used.
>>
>> >        location /demo {
>> >            rewrite ^ /upvc;
>>
>> Once that happens, you are using the new internal-to-nginx request
>> "/upvc", so a new choice for best-match location happens, and the rest
>> of this location{} block is not relevant.
>>
>> >            proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:8080;
>>
>> >            include    fastcgi_params;
>>
>> Aside: the fastcgi_params file will typically have content relevant for
>> when fastcgi_pass is used, not for when proxy_pass is used.
>>
>> So, the http request for /demoX leads to the nginx request for /upvc,
>> which matches this location:
>>
>> > location /upvc {
>> >         alias  /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/demo;
>> >         index demo3.jsp;
>> >         expires 1m;
>>
>> And here, you say "serve it from the filesystem", so that's what it does.
>>
>> (I suspect that you actually get a http redirect to /upvc/, which then
>> returns the content of /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/demo/demo3.jsp. Using
>> "curl" as the browser tends to make clear what is happening.)
>>
>
> > }
>
> > Rewrite is working but nginx is not.  proxying to tomcat, because of that
> > returns the jsp file as a plain text file.
> >
> > Please could you help me?
>
> The hardest part of nginx config that I find, it working out what exactly
>> you want to have happen for each request.
>>
>> From the above sample config, I'm not sure what it is that you want.
>>
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>>
>> Perhaps putting the proxy_pass in the "location /upvc" block will work? Or
>> perhaps removing the rewrite?
>>
>
>
> I did it, and tried using curl, tomcat complains that it cannot find
> /upvc.
>
>
>>
>> If you can describe what behaviour you want, then possibly the nginx
>> config to achieve it will become clear.
>>
>
> I'd want that when you type http://example.com/upvc proxies the
> /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/demo/
> demo3.jsp file  to tomcat
>
>
> Thanks for your nice explanation
>
>
>>
>>         f
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>> Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org
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Anyway it's obvious that results in "not found" tomcat upvc directory does
not exist,. Shame on me :'-(

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