Question

Some solutions about redirection can be found. But what I want to do is redirecting part of requests to another server, specifically, only when a request url includes string “service”. For example:

http://localhost/service/image————-> http://localhost:8080/service/image

http://localhost/service/image/upload——> http://localhost:8080/service/image/upload

http://localhost/service/blog————–> http://localhost:8080/service/blog
…..
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but blow will still served by ngnix,cause no “service” included within url

http://localhost/wiki/….

http://localhost/video/….

How to do this?

Answer 1

You need to use location regex matching together with proxy_pass, example:

upstream apache {
  server 127.0.0.1:8080;
}

# in your server block:

server{

  # location matching is prioritized by accuracy and order of definition

  location ~* ^/service {
    proxy_pass http://apache;
    proxy_redirect off;
  }

}

^/service will match any request beginning with /service and forward it to Apache.

proxy_pass is transparent for the user, i.e. it will forward the request to Apache and return the output to the user.

For more info on location matching, checkout http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#location