Question

Given the following config:

server {

    listen 80;
    server_name site.com;

    location /proxy {
            proxy_pass   http://newsite.com/;
   }
 }

The page hosted on site.com uses relative path (/main.css) for all it statics files, so when i receive the proxied page, the browser is querying static files with the wrong path:

i.e. : http://site.com/main.css

How would i go to have these static files requested follow to their original location (http://newsite.com/main.css)?

Answer 1

You should be able to use a rewrite rule in your server section, something like the following (untested):

server_name site.com;
rewrite ^/([^/]+\.css)$ http://newsite.com/$1;

That should redirect all requests for .css files in the top-level directory of site.com to http://newsite.com/. Adjust the regex or add rewrite rules as necessary if you need to include other static files (images, scripts, etc.).