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Nginx location regex doesn't work with proxy pass
A small addition to the great answer from Xaviar:
If you happen to be not so well acquainted with nginx, there's an important difference between adding the slash to the end of the proxy_pass ...
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How to handle relative urls correctly with a nginx reverse proxy
The problem is basically that using a proxy_pass directive won't rewrite HTML code and therefor relative URL's to for instance a img src="/assets/image.png" won't magically change to img src="/bbb/...
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Why am I getting an "Invalid command 'ProxyPass'" error when I start my Apache 2.2 server?
proxy_http module requires proxy, and ProxyPass directive is defined in the latter.
Make sure it's also loaded.
Thanks to Milind Singh
Load the module by running
Run sudo a2enmod proxy_http
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Nginx location regex doesn't work with proxy pass
It tells you that the URI in the proxy pass directive can't be used in a regex location. This is because nginx can't replace the part of the URI matching the regex in the location block with the one ...
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How to remove the path with an nginx proxy_pass
I'd like to address a newer regex-based answer that's been rising in popularity.
location ~ ^/en(/?)(.*)$ { # OOPS!
proxy_pass http://luscious/$2$is_args$args; # OOPS!
}
The solution may seem ...
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encode URL wihthin URL - apache mod-proxy (ProxyPass)
In the default Apache configuration, the AllowEncodedSlashes directive is set to off. This means that: "...The AllowEncodedSlashes directive allows URLs which contain encoded path separators [...] to ...
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NGINX proxy_pass with URI modification
From nginx's documentation (context : prefixed location)
If the proxy_pass directive is specified with a URI, then when a request is passed to the server, the part of a normalized request URI ...
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Redirect traffic based on url to different ip address maintaining port and url information
I have established what the problems were with my setup.
1) SELinux was preventing me from connecting upstream. I have now disabled this and will consider setting it up properly later
2) proxy_pass ...
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Nginx proxy_pass to wordpress docker container
It may help to set some headers so that the upstream knows the correct frontend server name. See this document for more.
For example, I use:
proxy_set_header Host $host;
...
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NGINX proxy_pass with URI modification
I know this is an old question but I was looking for this and found another and I belive the easiest solution. While using proxy_pass you can't use uri however you can use it as variable. Like here:
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Nginx proxy_pass root and specific url only
location / matches any location - if you want to match only /, you should use location = /. See this document for details.
Also, your regular expression location is missing the ~ or ~* operator. But ...
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Apache Virtual Hosts .. Redirect .. ProxyPass .. and Alias
This should works:
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
Redirect (!/mm) https://server.org/test/
Alias /mm "/var/opt/mm"
Alias /test/mm "/var/opt/mm"
<Directory "/var/opt/mm">
Options Indexes ...
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nginx upstream not working
When you use proxy_pass without proxy_set_header directives, nginx will use some default headers. Most times it's what you would want or, at least, harmless, but in your case you have to set them ...
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Nginx variable in proxy pass does not work
Those two cases are not the same. If you use a variable, that value will replace the entire URI.
In this case:
location /site {
proxy_pass http://docker-site/site/mobile;
}
the URI /site/foo ...
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nginx proxy gives 404 not found
Okay, I did some testing. The problem is this line:
proxy_set_header Host $host;
This line has the effect that the http request of the proxy is done using the same hostname as the original request TO ...
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Apache Reverse Proxy setting for site having Spring Security
I've been struggling with this same problem for a few days and I might have cracked it. I'm new to Spring Security so don't take this as gospel! Others might object... I'm using Apache 2.4 (on OS X) ...
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Redirect traffic based on url to different ip address maintaining port and url information
You want to maintain the port, then you should put it in proxy_pass.
server {
server_name bob.something.com;
listen 41001;
listen 41002;
listen 8080;
location / {
...
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How to remove the path with an nginx proxy_pass
Accounting to Nginx documents
To pass a request to an HTTP proxied server, the proxy_pass directive is specified inside a location. For example:
location /some/path/ {
proxy_pass http://www....
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Nginx Proxy Pass SSL Verification
The documentation for proxy_ssl_trusted_certificate states:
Specifies a file with trusted CA certificates in the PEM format used to verify the certificate of the proxied HTTPS server.
Since you're ...
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nginx denies all requests to a virtual host . requests are coming from a nginx tcp forwarder
This is happening because your nginx load balancer makes a new TCP connection to your nginx web servers, causing the original client IP address to be lost.
You can solve this using the PROXY protocol. ...
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Nginx proxy pass url from get argument
Try this:
location ~ /proxy/(http://.*) {
resolver 8.8.8.8;
proxy_pass http://$1$is_args$args;
}
No explicit rewriting needed. $is_args will be set to ? if the request line has arguments, or ...
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Using nginx to proxy multiple instances of sockets.io
I was having the exact problem and I found this simple workaround :
Configure your client socket.io from your js/html file to connect from subdirectory (The default socket.io setting will have your ...
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ProxyPass a WebSocket connection to a UNIX socket
Ok I got it, once you have mod_proxy and mod_proxy_wstunnel enabled you can do this:
ProxyPass /ws/ unix:/path/to/app.sock|ws://example.com/ws/
It works well for me since I only expect to establish ...
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Nginx proxy: deny all apart from sub-path
Fixed on advice from Richard's comment.
Nginx only matches one location block, so I moved the headers to be defined in the server and set proxy_pass with the appropriate allow,deny on paths to be ...
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Configuring multiple ProxyPassReverseCookiePath in Apache HTTP
After searching around the solution is to group the directives under a <Location> tag:
<Location /app1>
ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /app /app1
</Location>
<Location /app2>
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nginx set directive not working
The Nginx config itself was indeed correct.
The problem I had was envsubst also replacing the $backend variable with an empty space.
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Nginx: Forcing upstream server to log proxy server's request id instead of it's own request id
You don't actually want the upstream server to log the request ID in $request_id. Instead you want it to log the contents of an HTTP request header named X-Request-ID.
In that case you should log the ...
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XAMPP deny access from specific external IP address
As @MichaelHampton already commented: remove the following settings immediately:
<Proxy *>
order allow,deny
deny from 193.37.XXX.XX
allow from all
</Proxy>
Those are not ...
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nginx denies all requests to a virtual host . requests are coming from a nginx tcp forwarder
My approach would be:
Filter in the load balancer using SNI:
Basically: SNI allows the proxy to see the domain name, without terminating TLS. Here is a guide. And here are the nginx docs to combine it ...
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Apache ProxyPass worker name too long
An alternate (and in my opinion, more elegant) solution would be to use the RewriteEngine, as is discussed in this Apache bug report https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53218
# This ...
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