tell nginx to stay inside same location?

[Gregory Edigarov]

On 07/30/2015 06:02 PM, Edho Arief wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Gregory Edigarov <edigarov at qarea.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> is that possible to tell nginx to stay inside the same location after
>> rewrite rule is done?
>>
>> i.e. I have:
>>
>> location  /njs/ {
>>      proxy_pass http://localhost:5501;
>> ......
>> }
>>
>> now, if i need to cut off /njs/ part, i added the following:
>> location /njs/ {
>>      rewrite /njs(.*) $1;
>>      proxy_pass http://localhost:5501;
>> ..........
>>    }
>>
>> but, that doesn't work, because my uri has changed and nginx goes to the
>> default location, which I don't need.
>>
>> what could I do in this situation?
>>
> if only you have read the documentation...
>
> http://nginx.org/r/proxy_pass
>
> ...
> When the URI is changed inside a proxied location using the rewrite
> directive, and this same configuration will be used to process a
> request (break):
>
> location /name/ {
>      rewrite    /name/([^/]+) /users?name=$1 break;
>      proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1;
> }
>
> In this case, the URI specified in the directive is ignored and the
> full changed request URI is passed to the server.
> ...
>
thank you very very much.
I've read the docs, but skipped the break completely, somehow.