proxy_pass not passing to dynamic $host

Sat Nov 2 14:21:14 UTC 2013

Hi Francis,

I added rewrite command so that the url doesn't show IP passed to the nginx.
Curl gives a 302 because it doesnt have the sessionid with it. If there is a
session id that is passed to the application running on 
http://23.23.234.234:8080/test, it will take us to app. I can see in
application logs that jsessionid does not get there and hence it redirects
to the login page.

Curl from upstream gave me-
[ec2-user at clarity-test conf]$ curl -i -H
ec2-54-208-198-229.compute-1.amazonaws.com:example.com http:/
/23.23.234.234:8080/test
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Location:
https://marketplace-staging.cloud.tibco.com/marketplace/marketplace/login
Content-Length: 0
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 14:13:05 GMT

[ec2-user at clarity-test conf]$ curl -i -d key=value
https://example.com/23.23.234.234
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 14:11:53 GMT
Location: https://clarity-test.cloud.tibco.com:8080/clarity
Server: nginx/1.4.2
Content-Length: 160
Connection: keep-alive

<html>
<head><title>302 Found</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>302 Found</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.4.2</center>
</body>
</html>

If I remove the rewrite command and provides the html page in proxy_pass
i.e. proxy_pass http://$ec2instance:8080/test/test.html, it gets to the
test.html page of the application but does not load any .css .js files and
says open failed "/opt/nginx/html/test/test.html. 

Regards,
Neha

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,244308,244369#msg-244369