Meteor, Angular routes, Nginx and SSL - how to route /path to another server with rewrite

Question

I have:

• DigitalOcean VPS
• Meteor application with routing in Angular
• Nginx as a reverse-proxy
• SSL for my domain, configured with Nginx (also redirecting http to https)
• another hosting (!) with Wordpress blog there
• something doma.in with DNS set to DigitalOcean VPS and Meteor app is there

How can I "rewrite" doma.in/blog to the blog, but with this same URL? (without redirect).

Answer 1

Try this nginx configuration:

location  ^/blog {
  rewrite /blog(.*) $1  break; #cut the /blog path
  proxy_pass         http://blog.com:8000; #then pass it to the blog domain/port
  proxy_redirect     off;  #without redirecting 
  proxy_buffering off;    #or buffering
}

As for angular, it simply needs to avoid/skip the route, as discussed here on SO