# Help for nginx proxy pass rule **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [April 6, 2016, 12:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-for-nginx-proxy-pass-rule/244412 "2016-04-06T12:45:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sadaf\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@Sadaf\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sadaf_N)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 12:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-for-nginx-proxy-pass-rule/244412/1 "2016-04-06T12:45:23Z")
HI, We have a WordPress site named it as [https://www.abc.com](https://www.abc.com); We are using Nginx as the web server for this site. I wanted to create a proxy pass rule like this [https://www.abc.com/static/js/widget.js](https://www.abc.com/static/js/widget.js) will be load from [https://www.xys.org/static/js/widget.js](https://www.xys.org/static/js/widget.js) without changing URL Here is the configuration that I configured for this requirement in the [www.abc.com](http://www.abc.com) Nginx site configuration file location /static { ``` proxy_pass https://www.xys.org/static; proxy_set_header Host www.xys.org; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; ``` } When I access [https://www.abc.com/static/js/widget.js](https://www.abc.com/static/js/widget.js), I am getting Nginx 404 Not Found error with the following error log in its log file 2016/04/06 06:39:14 [error] 20107#0: \*907 open() “/usr/share/nginx/html/www.abc.com/static/js/widget.js” failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 118.102.223.138, server: [www.abc.com](http://www.abc.com), request: “GET /static/js/widget.js HTTP/1.1”, host: [www.abc.com](http://www.abc.com) I have tried different Nginx proxy pass configuration but not success yet. It will be good to get your thought to fix this issues Thanks Roni ---
**Author:** ![Roni\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@Roni\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Roni_B)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-for-nginx-proxy-pass-rule/244412/2 "2016-04-06T15:21:57Z")
Are you sure the location is working? [abc.com/static/js/widget.js](http://abc.com/static/js/widget.js)" failed (2: No such file or directory) - I think its trying to access that file locally and not via the proxy On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Roni B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > [https://www.abc.com/static/js/widget.js](https://www.abc.com/static/js/widget.js) will be load from > > } > > * * * > > nginx mailing list > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > [mailman.nginx.org archive](http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx) – Anoop P Alias ---
**Author:** ![Roni\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@Roni\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Roni_B)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-for-nginx-proxy-pass-rule/244412/3 "2016-04-06T15:28:58Z")
Yes the destination URl [[https://www.xys.org/static/js/widget.js](https://www.xys.org/static/js/widget.js)] is working perfectly alone Why it tried locally? I used proxypass rule for it. If I wanted to do anything to enable proxy capability in my Nginx? Thanks for your reply Roni ---
**Author:** ![Roni\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@Roni\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Roni_B)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-for-nginx-proxy-pass-rule/244412/4 "2016-04-06T23:47:16Z")
On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 06:58:07PM +0530, Roni B. wrote: Hi there, > Yes the destination URl [[https://www.xys.org/static/js/widget.js](https://www.xys.org/static/js/widget.js)] is working > perfectly alone > Why it tried locally? I used proxypass rule for it. If I wanted to do > anything to enable proxy capability in my Nginx? Read [Module ngx\_http\_core\_module](http://nginx.org/r/location) Then do something like grep location your.conf to see which location{} blocks you have defined. Which one of those locations will nginx use to handle this request? The error log suggests that this request is handled in a location that is not the one that you showed – perhaps one defined as something like location ~ js$ { Possibly changing your > location /static { to location ^~ /static { will make it work the way you want. That would tell nginx to choose it instead of any regex one, for this request. Separate from that: for the proxy\_pass directive, you could probably drop the “/static” part of the argument since it matches the request prefix. But until the proxy\_pass is actually used, changing it will make no difference. ## f Francis D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![Roni\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@Roni\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Roni_B)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 6:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-for-nginx-proxy-pass-rule/244412/5 "2016-04-07T06:20:25Z")
Perfect fix… Able to solve my issues.Thanks Francis The issue was, I configured these location blocks already in my config file location ~\* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|ico|zip|xspf|swf|ttf|woff|js)$ { for serving static files directly. It was over ride the location rule that I used It started to work my location rule changed it like this as per your recommendation location ^~ /static { Thanks a Lot Roni B.