Reverse proxy, proxy_pass

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 05:52:20PM -0600, Amir Kaivani wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Here is a part of my nginx config file:
> 
> location /test/ {
>    proxy_pass http://localhost:1024/;
> }
> 
> If I have it as above the GET /test/xxxx request will be sent to port 1024
> as /xxxx and it also decodes the URI.
> 
> I know that if I remove / from the end of proxy_pass then it'll send the
> URI without decoding special characters (such as %2F). But in this case it
> sends /test/xxxx to port 1024.
> 
> So, my question is how I can get nginx to remove /test/ from the URI but
> does NOT decode special characters (such as %2F)?

How do you expect nginx to remove "/test/" without decoding 
special characters?  E.g., what should happen if the request is to 
"/test%2F", "/t%65st/", or "/test//"?

As long as you have an answer, you can try constructing 
appropriate URI to upstream request yourself by using proxy_pass 
with variables.  When proxy_pass is used with variables, nginx 
won't try to do anything with URI specified and will pass it ass 
is.

E.g., assuming all requests start with "/test/" and there are no 
escaping problems:

    location /test/ {
        set $changed_uri "/";

        if ($request_uri ~ "^/test(/.*)") {
            set $changed_uri $1;
        }

        proxy_pass http://localhost:1024$changed_uri;
    }

Note though, that such approach is likely to cause problems unless 
used with care.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/