nginx change referer for proxy

Question

I have set up a very basic proxy rule in nginx. However the resources where the request are proxyed do a referer check. It must be the same domain the service is running at. I therefore need to change the referer. I tried a proxy_set_header but that doesn´t seem to work.

Am I missing something or is there any other way to do this?

location /api/v1/ { proxy_pass http://192.168.10.10:8080; proxy_set_header Referer "http://192.168.10.10"; } 

Answer 1

You say that the proxied server asks for a domain name as a referer. Try that domain name instead of IP address.

proxy_set_header Referer "http://proxied-domain-here.com"; 

Answer 2

Few years later, but this could be helpful to somewhere, you miss the port at the referer header (:8080):

 proxy_set_header Referer "http://192.168.10.10:8080"; 

I hope can be helpful.