Setting up basic nginx reverse proxy

Question

Unfortunately, my work requires me to use Apache Tomcat. The Tomcat application is running on http://127.0.0.1:8080/. I'd like to get a reverse proxy going so I can have http://mydomain.com/tomcat/some/extra/stuff proxy from http://127.0.0.1:8080/some/extra/stuff. This is what I'm trying so far:

location /tomcat { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080; rewrite ^/tomcat(/.*) $1 break; } 

This results in http://mydomain.com/tomcat/meow/cat redirecting to http://mydomain.com/meow/cat which is not what I want. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You don't need the rewrite rule, that config will map domain.com/tomcat/ to http://127.0.0.1:8080/ so you don't need to rewrite the directory