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Kushan
Kushan

Reputation: 5984

Nginx reverse proxy configuration issue

i have deployed a webapp on tomcat on digital ocean droplet

The structure of the war file is (Servelet is the webapp name)

Servelet
    ---- WEB-INF/classes/folder/FileXyz.class

Now on my local pc when i want to access this i do:

localhost:8080/Servelet/FileXyz

I deployed the same war on the tomcat on digital ocean but this time with a domain connected : server.foodini.co.in

Now i can access the same file using:

server.foodini.co.in:8080/Servelet/FileXyz

This works fine.

Now i wanted to have an nginx in front which would listen to the 80 port and forward all requests to the tomcat webapp via a reverse proxy

I edited the default file under /etc/nginx/sites-available under the server configuration, i added:

  server_name server.foodini.co.in

  root /opt/tomcat/webapps/Servelet

  location / {
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
  }

Now when i do

server.foodini.co.in

It opens the tomcat default page as expected

But 

server.foodini.co.in/Servelet/FileXyz

(adding the port 8080 again works)

gives a 404 and the same 404 for all other paths, can someone please guide me.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 822

Answers (1)

Daniel Conde Marin
Daniel Conde Marin

Reputation: 7742

You need to set the Host Header when passing the request to the proxied server, otherwise nginx will override the Host header with the variable $proxy_host, which in this case would be 127.0.0.1:8080 and you want it to be server.foodini.co.in:8080. So just add this to the location / block:

proxy_set_header Host $host:$proxy_port;

Upvotes: 1

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