I am tunneling some remote cameras throw SSH to a VPS. I want to be able to pass the port number over the url, and nginx proxy it to the localhost:'that port'.
Pretty much this:
http://test.doman.com/1234/ -> localhost:1234/something/
I found a question pretty similar, but I was not able to understand it and modify to my needs.
UPDATE:
I tried to modify the example in many ways (below is one that more made sense) but every time I try a curl, I get a page 500 instead of the desired port.
server { listen 80; server_name my.domain.com; location ~ ^/cam/([0-9]+)$ { set $port $1; proxy_pass http://localhost:$port/cgi-bin/mjpg/video.cgi?channel=1&subtype=1; } } UPDATE 2
Apparently my rule config is right (rewrite the whole nginx.conf just to be sure) but I am still getting a 502 Bad Gateway message. I can curl localhost:8080 from my external server, and it reaches my camera page, but I can't redirect it using nginx.
http { server { listen 80; root /var/www/; location ~ ^/cam/([0-9]+) { set $port_num $1; # Debug my variable #return 200 $port_num; proxy_pass http://localhost:$port_num; } } } events { } UPDATE 3
I did look at the log file (thanks for the suggestion), and notice that NGINX was not able to resolve localhost (???).
2020/10/07 13:53:39 [error] 1997#1997: *4 no resolver defined to resolve localhost, client: 127.0.0.1, server: , request: "GET /cam/8080 HTTP/1.1", host: "localhost"
I replace the localhost string to 127.0.0.1 and tried again. This time I get a 404 message from the curl but no error in my log.
<html><body><h1>404 Not Found</h1></body></html>
