Hello!

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 08:53:40AM +0000, Rob Fulton wrote:

> On 19/11/2018 13:12, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> >
> > If you want to use variables in the proxy_pass and at the same
> > time want to preserve effect of nginx internal URI changes such as
> > due to rewrites, consider using an empty URI compontent in the
> > proxy_pass. For example:
> >
> > set $backend "http://example.com";
> > proxy_pass $backend;
> >
> Thanks for the guidance however we are proxying to a specific folder on
> our backend servers, i.e
>
> set $backend "http://example.com/blue/content";
>
> proxy_pass $backend
>
> Is there a way to make this work in this scenario?

Try changing URI in nginx with rewrite instead of trying to
construct URI in proxy_pass by hand, e.g.:

set $backend "http://example.com";
rewrite ^(.*) /blue/content$1 break;
proxy_pass $backend;

--
Maxim Dounin
http://mdounin.ru/
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