Hi,

I am trying to implement the NGINX API gateway in nginx 1.10.3 community version. I am facing the issue that NGINX is not forwarding the request to authentication service. nginx configuration is pasted at the end of this thread.

I have written authentication service which is listening for login requests on /login.
My protected application has no login page and responds with 401 status if its tried to be accessed without login in authentication service.

Now according to the nginx auth_request module, if the protected applicaiton throws 401 status then NGINX forwards the request to authentication service for login and after successful login the request is forwarded back to the backend server.
BUT, this is not happening for my configuration. When I try to access my nginx application it is not forwarding the request to auth service. I have verified this by looking at the response headers which has the custom sessionid name of protected application only.

I have checked my installation and it shows that --with-http_auth_request_module is compiled in my installation

NGINX Configuraiton :


http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;

# proxy_intercept_errors on;

server {
listen 8180;

location /{
auth_request /login;
proxy_pass http://adi-backend;
}

location /api {
auth_request /login;
proxy_pass http://adi-backend;
}

location = /login {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8080/login;
proxy_pass_request_body off;
proxy_set_header Content-Length "";
proxy_set_header X-Original-URI $request_uri;
}

error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root html;
}
}

upstream adi-backend {
server localhost:8280;
}

upstream authserv {
server localhost:8380;
}

}