Reverse proxy and rewrite. Need help!

Server NGINX
1

Hey ,

I have two domains, domain.net and domain.com and considering the
expected lack of IP addresses I want to setup a sites hub/reverse proxy.
Nginx 0.7.6x is installed on a debian 5.x box and works fine so far. Now
I’m stuck with this 4 cases scenario:

  1. www.domain.net ----> nginx ------(no rewrite)------>
    internal-www.domain.net box
    Nginx should pass the whole url to the internal box. Here’s my config
    server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.domain.net;

#charset koi8-r;

access_log logs/www.domain.net.access.log;

location / {
proxy_pass http://internal-www.domain.net;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}

  1. www.domain.com ----> nginx ------(rewrite)------>
    internal-com.domain.net box
    nginx should rewrite the base url (http://www.domain.com to
    http://com.domain.net before passing it to the internal box)
    ex : Website Domains Names & Hosting | Domain.com rewritten to
    http://com.domain.net/index.html and send to the box

  2. pub.domain.net/alias1 ----> nginx ------(rewrite)------>
    internal-pub.domain.net box
    nginx should rewrite the url to remove the “/alias1” part before passing
    it to the internal box (which is a drupal site…).
    ex : http://pub.domain.net/alias1/index.php rewritten to
    http://pub.domain.net/index.php and send to the box

  3. pub.domain.net/alias2 ----> nginx ------(rewrite)------>
    internal-alias2.domain.net box
    nginx should rewrite the url from pub.domain.net/alias2 to
    alias2.domain.net part before passing it to the internal box
    ex: http://pub.domain.net/alias2 rewritten to http://alias2.domain.net
    and send to the box.

After some hair pulling, a lot of “Should I use proxy_pass or
proxy_redirect ?” and “is drupal messing with something”, any help would
be really appreciated.

Thanks

Blitter

2

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 03:18:17PM +0100, Da Blitter wrote:

server {
proxy_set_header Host $host;

alias2.domain.net part before passing it to the internal box
ex: http://pub.domain.net/alias2 rewritten to http://alias2.domain.net
and send to the box.

After some hair pulling, a lot of “Should I use proxy_pass or
proxy_redirect ?” and “is drupal messing with something”, any help would
be really appreciated.

proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

server {
server_name www.domain.net;
location / {
proxy_pass http://internal-www.domain.net;
}
}

server {
server_name www.domain.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://internal-com.domain.net;
}
}

server {
server_name pub.domain.net;
location /alias1/ {
proxy_pass http://internal-pub.domain.net/;
}
location /alias2/ {
proxy_pass http://internal-alias2.domain.net/;
}
}

–
Igor S.
http://sysoev.ru/en/

3

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 05:32:11PM +0300, Igor S. wrote:

internal-www.domain.net box
proxy_pass http://internal-www.domain.net;
ex : http://www.domain.com/index.html rewritten to
internal-alias2.domain.net box
nginx should rewrite the url from pub.domain.net/alias2 to
alias2.domain.net part before passing it to the internal box
ex: http://pub.domain.net/alias2 rewritten to http://alias2.domain.net
and send to the box.

After some hair pulling, a lot of “Should I use proxy_pass or
proxy_redirect ?” and “is drupal messing with something”, any help would
be really appreciated.

proxy_set_header Host $host;

“Host” is probably is not needed.

server {
}
location /alias2/ {
proxy_pass http://internal-alias2.domain.net/;
}
}

Also you should not disable proxy_redirect, if backend send such
redirects:
Location: http://internal-www.domain.net/some/url
Location: http://internal-pub.domain.net/another/url

–
Igor S.
http://sysoev.ru/en/

4

location /alias2/ {

proxy_set_header Host $host;

proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_pass http://alias2.domain.net/;
proxy_redirect default;
}

When I type http://pub.domain.net/alias2 in a browser, I can reach the
backend machine with this url but the displayed page is messy. Is there
any way to rewrite/force the url in the browser ?

Blitter

5

Thanks for your help Igor.

I still have some issues but I’ll make some new tries on monday.

Blitter