On Nov 18, 2012, at 17:25 , amodpandey wrote:

> Please help me understand
>
> The below works
>
> location /stats/ {
> proxy_pass http://example.com;
> }
>
> or
>
> location /stats {
> proxy_pass http://example.com;
> }
>
> or
>
> location /stats {
> proxy_pass http://example.com/stats;
> }
>
> or
>
> location /stats {
> proxy_pass http://example.com/stats/;
> }
>
> or
>
> location /stats/ {
> proxy_pass http://example.com/stats/;
> }
>
> But this does not work
>
> location /stats/ {
> proxy_pass http://example.com/stats;
> }
>
> Smlly when stats is an upstream
>
> This works
>
> location /stats {
> proxy_pass http://stats;
> }
>
> but this does not
>
> location /stats {
> proxy_pass http://stats/;
> }

It should work. Probably "/stats/" > "/stats" does not work.

> What difference it makes when we have uri in the proxy_pass?

It does not work because nginx changes /stats/SOME/PAGE to /statsSOME/PAGE.

Please read for details:
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_pass


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Igor Sysoev
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