Can you migrate a web app available via '/' to a proxied sub-URI without modifying the web app?

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Francis Daly Wrote:
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> nginx gets a request for /static/styles.css.
> 
> I'm not aware of a rewrite which will let you decide which of
> web-app-1
> and web-app-2 is the correct one to proxy_pass this request to this
> time. Both web apps use the same url.

There is a distinction between web apps, the request url, which you use as a
map variable.

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