On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 08:56:59PM -0400, sdotsen wrote:

> I'm running Oracle Collab Suite on port 7777 and 7778. Oracle installed its own Apache and hacking it has proven to be difficult. For one thing, I can't seem to get VirtualHost to work correctly. Since it doesnt use port 80 by default, I decided to put nginx in front of it. I managed to proxy pass port 80 to 7778. However, it doesnt stop there. Here's how things are now.
>
> My mail is pointed to the following URL: http://mail.domain.com:7778/ocsclient/
> My conferencing portal is pointed to: http://mail.domain.com:7778/imtapp/app/prelogin.uix
>
> As you can see, the URLs are pointed to mail because that's what the machine name is called. I managed to create a CNAME which works but once it redirects after you log in, it goes back to http://mail.domain.com:7778/.....
> So, two things ...
>
> 1 - How can I hide the port number, I think I got it to work using proxy_pass but that only seems to work for one "server."
>
> server {
> listen 80;
> server_name mail.domain.com;
>
> location / {
> index index.html;
> proxy_pass http://mail.domain.com:7778;
> }
> }
>
> I added a second "server" directive for "conference.domain.com" but it sends me in a loop.
>
> 2 - How can I rewrite my URL so that if I go to "conference.domain.com" it doesn't change to "mail.domain.com." Don't forget the app was installed and takes the hostname of the server which is mail.domain.com.

http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpProxyModule#proxy_redirect

However, it rewrites "Location"s header only. It can not rewrite links
inside HTML.


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