Proxy subdomain root to a different server url

Server NGINX
1

Hi,

I need to alias a subdomain to contents of an url, e.g. I need
http://abcd.domain.com/ to proxy contents of
http://www.domain.com/path1/path2/xyz

All my attempts with proxy_pass resulted in 301 to
http://abcd.domain.com/path1/path2/xyz and a 404 with strange duplicate
uri /path1/path2/xyzpath1/path2/xyz

    server {
            listen          11.22.33.44:80;
            server_name     abcd.domain.com;

            location / {
                    proxy_pass

http://www.domain.com/path1/path2/xyz;
}
}

I’m clearly missing something, please help!

2

Hi,

I think what you might need to set is ‘proxy_redirect’. I’m running a
similar setup which works this way.

Regards,
Chris

Sent from BlackBerry Device

3

Hi Chris,

I was missing $1 in the end of the uri so the rewrite works.
Without it, it was being silently ignored and was creating a redirect
loop.

For the mailing list archival purposes, here is what I ended up with:

    server {
            listen          11.22.33.44:80;
            server_name     abcd.domain.com;

            location / {
                    rewrite ^(.*)$ /path1/path2/filename$1 break;
                    proxy_pass http://www.domain.com;
            }
            server_tokens   off;
    }

Thanks again,
Vahan

4

proxy_pass http://www.domain.com/path1/path2/xyz/;
slash (“/”) in the end.

Posted at Nginx Forum:

5

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 04:03:57PM +0400, Vahan Y. wrote:

            location / {
                    rewrite ^(.*)$ /path1/path2/filename$1 break;
                    proxy_pass http://www.domain.com;
            }
            server_tokens   off;
    }

This works without rewrites:

location / {
     proxy_pass http://www.domain.com/path1/path2/filename/;
}

–
Igor S.

6

Damn, sometimes a single trailing slash can be a show-stopper :slight_smile: