Rewrite URI and pass request to the upstream server

Server NGINX
1

Hi friends, I need rewrite and old URI and pass the request to the
upstream
server, here is my current config file:
http://pastie.org/418871

If for example I have http://pe.domain.com/xx-xxx-689 I need redirect to
http://cl.domain.com/xx-xxx-689 and let the upstream process the new
request, with my current config I’ve obtained the rewrite of the URI but
nginx return me a 404 error, therefore it is not transfering the request
to
the upstream server because the 404 error page are different between
nginx
and my application.

Regards!

2

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Ruben. D. [email protected]
wrote:

Hi friends, I need rewrite and old URI and pass the request to the upstream
server, here is my current config file:
http://pastie.org/418871

If for example I have http://pe.domain.com/xx-xxx-689 I need redirect to
http://cl.domain.com/xx-xxx-689 and let the upstream process the new
request, with my current config I’ve obtained the rewrite of the URI but
nginx return me a 404 error, therefore it is not transfering the request to
the upstream server because the 404 error page are different between nginx
and my application.

This is a wild shot but you might try

I’ve never used named upstream locations but the ending slash does
have a different effect when passing HTTP to a backend. I believe it
maintains the /uri/ request as is, instead of winding up being
/uri/uri duplicated (I think is the easiest way to explain it?)

Also if you only have one mongrels server you could probably just do

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000/;

If you don’t plan on adding anymore in the future…

3

Hello!

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:09:29PM -0500, Ruben. D. wrote:

Hi friends, I need rewrite and old URI and pass the request to the upstream
server, here is my current config file:
http://pastie.org/418871

If for example I have http://pe.domain.com/xx-xxx-689 I need redirect to
http://cl.domain.com/xx-xxx-689 and let the upstream process the new
request, with my current config I’ve obtained the rewrite of the URI but
nginx return me a 404 error, therefore it is not transfering the request to
the upstream server because the 404 error page are different between nginx
and my application.

According to your config, [new] request to cl.domain.com/xx-xxx-689
will end up in “location ~* [a-zA-Z]+(-)+689$”, which has no proxy_pass
rules. You should either duplicate proxy_pass rules within this
location, or
(better, faster, more scalable) separate pe.* and cl.* servers:

server {
listen 80;
server_name pe.domain.com;

location ~* [a-zA-Z]+(\-)+689$ {
    rewrite  ^  http://cl.domain.com$request_uri?;
}

...

}

server {
listen 80;
server_name www.domain.com domain.com cl.domain.com;

...

}

For identical config chunks within this servers you may want to
use include.

Maxim D.

4

Maxim, very thanks for your time, I’ve added another proxy_pass rule and
it
works fine :wink:

mike: very thanks too!

Regards.

5

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Ruben. D. [email protected]
wrote:

Maxim, very thanks for your time, I’ve added another proxy_pass rule and it
works fine :wink:

mike: very thanks too!

yeah, too bad i was totally backwards there. :slight_smile:

6

Hello!

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:19:58AM -0700, mike wrote:

and my application.

This is a wild shot but you might try

I’ve never used named upstream locations but the ending slash does
have a different effect when passing HTTP to a backend. I believe it
maintains the /uri/ request as is, instead of winding up being
/uri/uri duplicated (I think is the easiest way to explain it?)

No.

Form of proxy_pass with uri component (proxy_pass http://mongrel/)
changes matched location prefix to this uri component. So, for

location /blah/ {
    proxy_pass http://backend/boom/;
}

and request “/blah/something” your backend will see
“/boom/something”.

Without uri component (proxy_pass http://mongrel) uri will be
transfered to backend as is, i.e. for

location /blah/ {
    proxy_pass http://backend;
}

and request “/blah/something” your backend will see
“/blah/something”.

For location / as you may see from the above form doesn’t matter,
and

proxy_pass http://mongrel;
proxy_pass http://mongrel/;

are equivalent (while the second one will eat a bit more CPU).

Maxim D.