# Reverse proxy to a tomcat service (folder name) **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [May 27, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reverse-proxy-to-a-tomcat-service-folder-name/207539 "2011-05-27T16:59:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reverse-proxy-to-a-tomcat-service-folder-name/207539/1 "2011-05-27T16:59:57Z")
Hello, I am breaking my head against the wall since his morning on this issue maybe you can help me. I have a single physical server hosting tomcat WARs and also other standalone services. I use subdomains and Nginx to route to the requested service. Tomcat append to URIs the name of the deployed WAR. For example, if I deploy myApp.war on my tomcat server, I can access it through [http://mydomain.com:8080/myApp/](http://mydomain.com:8080/myApp/). What I want is to acces my service through [http://myApp.domain.com](http://myApp.domain.com) and navigate my service AND whitout having [http://myApp.domain.com/myApp/](http://myApp.domain.com/myApp/) ! I wrote this conf : server { server\_name [myapp.domain.com](http://myapp.domain.com); root /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/myapp; access\_log /var/log/nginx/myapp.domain.com\_access.log; error\_log /var/log/nginx/myapp.domain.com\_error.log; ``` location / { proxy_pass http://localhost:8080/myapp; 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; } ``` location /myapp { proxy_pass http://localhost:8080/myapp; 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; } } If I access [http://myapp.domain.com/](http://myapp.domain.com/), my browser rewrites this url to [http://myapp.domain.com/myapp/](http://myapp.domain.com/myapp/). I would like to avoid the /myapp/ repeated. Do you have hints or comments to help me ? Thanks a lot Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Reverse proxy to a tomcat service (folder name)](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,201561,201561#msg-201561)** > > Hello, I am breaking my head against the wall since his morning on this issue maybe you can help me. I have a single physical server hosting tomcat WARs and also other standalone services. I use subdomains and Nginx to route to the requested service.... ---
**Author:** ![kheraud](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kheraud](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kheraud)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reverse-proxy-to-a-tomcat-service-folder-name/207539/2 "2011-05-27T17:11:43Z")
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:59:41AM -0400, kheraud wrote: > [http://mydomain.com:8080/myApp/](http://mydomain.com:8080/myApp/). > > ``` > proxy_pass http://localhost:8080/myapp; > > ``` > > repeated. > > Do you have hints or comments to help me ? Probably this: location / { proxy\_pass [http://myapp.domain.com:8080/myapp/](http://myapp.domain.com:8080/myapp/); proxy\_set\_header Host $host; proxy\_set\_header X-Real-IP $remote\_addr; proxy\_set\_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy\_add\_x\_forwarded\_for; sub\_filter /myapp/ /; } – Igor S. ---
**Author:** ![kheraud](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kheraud](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kheraud)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reverse-proxy-to-a-tomcat-service-folder-name/207539/3 "2011-05-27T18:27:10Z")
Thank you for the hint, It seems to work (for the first page) but in fact it leads to some errors… You added “/” to “proxy\_pass [http://localhost:8080/myapp](http://localhost:8080/myapp)”. But I ommitted it after having seen that it leads to the following mistakes on the tomcat side : The requested resource (/dev01-portal//j\_spring\_security\_check) is not available. The access log is : [27/May/2011:18:23:32 +0200] “POST /dev01-portal/j\_spring\_security\_check HTTP/1.1” 404 441 “[http://dev01-portal.appssalon.com/](http://dev01-portal.appssalon.com/)” "Mozilla/5.0 I don’t know why but it seems it requests [http://localhost:8080/dev01-portal//j\_spring\_security\_check](http://localhost:8080/dev01-portal//j_spring_security_check). Do you know where it comes from ? Thanks again for the help Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Reverse proxy to a tomcat service (folder name)](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,201561,201598#msg-201598)** > > Hello, I am breaking my head against the wall since his morning on this issue maybe you can help me. I have a single physical server hosting tomcat WARs and also other standalone services. I use subdomains and Nginx to route to the requested service.... ---
**Author:** ![kheraud](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kheraud](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kheraud)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reverse-proxy-to-a-tomcat-service-folder-name/207539/4 "2011-05-27T18:33:21Z")
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:26:47PM -0400, kheraud wrote: > The access log is : > [27/May/2011:18:23:32 +0200] “POST /dev01-portal/j\_spring\_security\_check > HTTP/1.1” 404 441 “[http://dev01-portal.appssalon.com/](http://dev01-portal.appssalon.com/)” "Mozilla/5.0 > > I don’t know why but it seems it requests > [http://localhost:8080/dev01-portal//j\_spring\_security\_check](http://localhost:8080/dev01-portal//j_spring_security_check). > > Do you know where it comes from ? It seems you have two locations: location / { location /dev01-portal { You need just one: location / { – Igor S.