Proxy_redirect problems

Server NGINX
1

This might be simple and related to the fact that I have been working
way too many hours in the last 4 weeks.
If it is, please forgive.

We have:

rewrite ^/$ /admin;

which is then handled by:

location /
{
    index index.html index.htm;
    try_files $uri $uri/ @seaside;
    error_page 403 = @seaside;
}

location @seaside
{
    proxy_pass http://gemstone;
}

upstream gemstone
{
   server 127.0.0.1:8080;
}

Urls after the first /

appear as

hostname/admin

want it to just be

hostname/

but cant get.

have tried:

proxy_redirect http://127.0.0.1:8080/admin/ /;
proxy_redirect http://gemstone:8080/admin/ /;
proxy_redirect http://gemstone/admin/ /;

and none work.

have done many times in the bygone days in apache but never
in nginx. can someone point out what i’m doing wrong?

2

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:37 PM, merlin corey [email protected]
wrote:

You don’t need this rewrite and what it does is cause the behavior
that you say you don’t want :P.

Try this seaside location instead:
location @seaside {
 proxy_pass http://gemstone/admin;
}

You might then need to play with proxy_redirect values and/or try with
trailing slash.

i then get this error:

Restarting nginx: [emerg]: “proxy_pass” may not have URI part in
location given by regular expression, or inside named location, or
inside the “if” statement, or inside the “limit_except” block in
/ah/sites/ops/conf/nginx.conf:38

config is this:

location /
{
    index index.html index.htm;
    try_files $uri $uri/ @seaside;
    error_page 403 = @seaside;
}

location @seaside
{
    proxy_pass http://gemstone/admin;
}

apparently adding admin there isnt an option.

3

Hello,

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Sean A.
[email protected] wrote:

This might be simple and related to the fact that I have been working
way too many hours in the last 4 weeks.
If it is, please forgive.

We have:

rewrite ^/$ /admin;

You don’t need this rewrite and what it does is cause the behavior
that you say you don’t want :P.

Try this seaside location instead:
location @seaside {
proxy_pass http://gemstone/admin;
}

You might then need to play with proxy_redirect values and/or try with
trailing slash.

GET SOME SLEEP!
– Merlin

4

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Sean A.
[email protected] wrote:

rewrite ^/$ /admin;
trailing slash.
location /

apparently adding admin there isnt an option.

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Hello,

Ach, sorry it is has been a very long time since I dealt with proxying
(mostly using fastcgi backends these days) and I forgot about the path
problem in regex and internal locations.

I’m not sure offhand how you might otherwise do this within a single
server block but I can think of an ugly hack where you add a fake
internal server block…

At any rate maybe you will find something in the documentation here:
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpProxyModule

Apologies and good luck,
Merlin

5

changing to proxy redirect to:

proxy_redirect  /admin  /;

works.