Hey guys I hate to bump my own post but.....

I am still struggling to get this proxy going. I have followed example after example on the web and nothing seems to work. I have also read through the documentation on proxy_pass and proxy_redirect but I still can't make it work.

What I am trying to do is pretty simple I think and surely this is a solved problem.

Here is the situation.

I have a rails site. Initially I was serving with passenger but I changed it to a proxy because I thought maybe passenger was causing a problem. I am now using nginx without the passenger module.

The main web site is being served from the backend http://localhost:3001 This part works great. I can go to my.server.com and I get the web site I am expecting.

I want anything in the /foo path to be handled by backend http://localhost:3000 This almost works. Then I browse http://my.server.com/foo it sends the request to the proper backend but the stylesheets, images etc don't load. The reason is because the links from the backend point to /stylesheets, /images etc and nginx is not proxying these.

Somehow I need nginx to append /foo to /stylesheets when they come from localhost:3000

According to the documantation the proxy redirect is supposed to do this but I can't find the magic incantation. The documentation says ...


Let us suppose the proxied server returned line Location: http://localhost:8000/two/some/uri/.

The directive

proxy_redirect http://localhost:8000/two/ http://frontend/one/;

will rewrite this line in the form Location: http://frontend/one/some/uri/.

In the replaceable line it is possible not to indicate the name of the server:

proxy_redirect http://localhost:8000/two/ /;

then the basic name of server and port is set, if it is different from 80.


I tried this but I still can't make it work.

Surely there is an easy way to this pretty simple thing.