Help with nginx configuration

Server NGINX
1

Hi,

Please consider this following scenario.

I have 2 servers(1 jetty and the other is apache) with nginx as proxy
servers to both.

I forward all the jsp queries to jetty and all the php queries to apache
httpd and serve the static content of both the servers by nginx.

Now the problem is there is one xml file “top.xml”, generated by httpd
which
i must send the request to httpd and also i need to send all the request
to
*.xml to jetty(i have asked the dev team to make sure there is no
top.xml
file in jetty).

Can you suggest some configuration settings to achieve this.

Right now I have tried that for top.xml go to httpd and for *.xml go to
jetty, but clearly the rule with *.xml overrides the top.xml condition.

My question is how the rules in the conf file processed when it comes to
proxying the request to different servers.

Thanks,

Rakesh.

2

Hi Rakesh,

The rules for location matching are layed out here

http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpCoreModule#location

I think what you are trying to do might look like this

server {

server_name …

include proxy.conf;

match exactly /top.xml

location = /top.xml {
proxy_pass http://apache;
}

match *.xml {

location ~* .xml {
proxy_pass http://jetty
}

}

Cheers

Dave

3

I will try it and post my findings soon.

Thanks,

Rakesh.