Cannot access nginx webserver behind another nginx reverse proxy

Question

I have two VMs, the first one (vm-1) is running nginx as reverse proxy with the following configuration:

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name example.com;
  return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}
server {
  server_name example.com;
  location /app1 {
    proxy_pass http://ip-vm-2:8080;
  }
  location /app2 {
    proxy_pass http://ip-vm-2:80;
  }
  listen 443 ssl;
  ssl_certificate ....
}

For the second vm (vm-2), I have app1 (a standalone jar) on port 8080 which is working correctly and I can access it from https://example.com/app1.

For app2, I have installed nginx and copied a website to /var/www/html, altough I can access it from http://ip-vm-2, I does not work from https://example.com/app2, which is what I want.

I don't know exactly what the problem is with the configuration in the reverse proxy.

Answer 1

I haven't tried with VMs, but this seems logical.

VM1 nginx configuration server { listen 80; server_name example.com; return 301 https://example.com$request_uri; } server { server_name example.com; location /app1 { proxy_pass http://ip-vm-2:8080; } location /app2 { proxy_pass http://ip-vm-2; } listen 443 ssl; ssl_certificate .... }

VM2 nginx configuration

server { listen 80; server_name ip-vm-2; location / { root /var/www/html; try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html ; } }

Let me know if it works.