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Hy,

We have that problem, that a site is not reachable throught nginx with
the domain name (for example www.foobar.org), even the websites are
reachable without nginx directly to apache.

This problem is not time specific, so that we have no solution at this
moment.

What is the problem here?

Best Regards,

Maik U.

2

Hello!

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:42:45AM +0100, Maik U. wrote:

Hy,

We have that problem, that a site is not reachable throught nginx with
the domain name (for example www.foobar.org), even the websites are
reachable without nginx directly to apache.

This problem is not time specific, so that we have no solution at this
moment.

What is the problem here?

Most likely you are using wrong config.

By default nginx will use hostname as specified in proxy_pass
directive, i.e.

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;

will generate request with Host header set to “127.0.0.1:8080”,
not to “www.foobar.org”. Your backend server won’t recognize it
if it’s configured to serve many virtual hosts, and
“www.foobar.org” is just one of them.

To preserve the hostname from the original request (as sent to
nginx server), use

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
proxy_set_header Host $host;

Maxim D.

3

Hello!

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:34:59AM +0100, Maik U. wrote:

    location / {
            proxy_pass

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080;
proxy_redirect off;

            proxy_set_header                Host            $host;

[…]

got the apache server startpage with the servers hostname.
Which server’s hostname? The one matching “domain.foobar.org”, or
something else?

Two possible causes I would consider are:

  1. Cache is poisoned by unrelated requests. This may happen if
    you use the same proxy_cache in other server{} blocks, or if the
    server{} block in question may be used for other hostnames as
    well (i.e. it’s default one).

  2. Something wrong happens on backend and it returns wrong
    response(s) sometimes. This may happen for a second or even
    a single request, but as you have cache configured - the response is
    cached for a relatively long time and hence you see it. E.g. this
    may be caused by some periodic backend’s config regeneration.

Maxim D.

4

Hello,

Out Config-File is:

server {
listen xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80;
server_name domain.foobar.org;
access_log
/var/www/html/domain.foobar.org/logs/nginx_domain.foobar.org_access.log
main;

    location / {
            proxy_pass

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080;
proxy_redirect off;

            proxy_set_header                Host            $host;
            proxy_set_header                X-Real-IP

$remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For
$proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Referer
$http_referer;
proxy_set_header Accept-Language
$http_accept_language;

            client_max_body_size            64m;
            client_body_buffer_size         128k;

            proxy_connect_timeout           90;
            proxy_send_timeout              90;
            proxy_read_timeout              90;

            proxy_buffer_size               4k;
            proxy_buffers                   4 32k;
            proxy_busy_buffers_size         64k;
            proxy_temp_file_write_size      64k;

            proxy_cache                     STATIC;
            proxy_cache_valid               200 30m;
            proxy_cache_valid               any 1m;
            proxy_cache_use_stale           error timeout

invalid_header updating http_500 http_502 http_503 http_504;
}
}

As you can see, we have already set the parameter proxy_set_header. The
problem occurs randomly, not all the time. When the problem occurs, we
got the apache server startpage with the servers hostname.

Maxim D. wrote in post #1040185:

Hello!

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:42:45AM +0100, Maik U. wrote:

Hy,

We have that problem, that a site is not reachable throught nginx with
the domain name (for example www.foobar.org), even the websites are
reachable without nginx directly to apache.

This problem is not time specific, so that we have no solution at this
moment.

What is the problem here?

Most likely you are using wrong config.

By default nginx will use hostname as specified in proxy_pass
directive, i.e.

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;

will generate request with Host header set to “127.0.0.1:8080”,
not to “www.foobar.org”. Your backend server won’t recognize it
if it’s configured to serve many virtual hosts, and
“www.foobar.org” is just one of them.

To preserve the hostname from the original request (as sent to
nginx server), use

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
proxy_set_header Host $host;

Maxim D.