nginx proxypath https redirect fails without trailing slash

Question

I'm trying to setup Nginx to forward requests to several backend services using proxy_pass.

The links on the pages that lack trailing slashes do have https:// in front, but get redirected to a http request with a trailing slash - which ends in connection refused - I only want these services to be available through https.

So if a link is too https://example.com/internal/errorlogs

in a browser when loaded https://example.com/internal/errorlogs gives Error Code 10061: Connection refused (it redirects to http://example.com/internal/errorlogs/)

If I manually append the trialing slash https://example.com/internal/errorlogs/ it loads

I've tried with varied trailing forward slashes appended to the proxypath and location in proxy.conf to no effect, have also added server_name_in_redirect off;

This happens on more than one app under nginx, and works in apache reverse proxy

Config files;

proxy.conf

location /internal { proxy_pass http://localhost:8081/internal; include proxy.inc; } .... more entries .... 

sites-enabled/main

server { listen 443; server_name example.com; server_name_in_redirect off; include proxy.conf; ssl on; } 

proxy.inc

proxy_connect_timeout 59s; proxy_send_timeout 600; proxy_read_timeout 600; proxy_buffer_size 64k; proxy_buffers 16 32k; proxy_pass_header Set-Cookie; proxy_redirect off; proxy_hide_header Vary; proxy_busy_buffers_size 64k; proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k; proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding ''; proxy_ignore_headers Cache-Control Expires; proxy_set_header Referer $http_referer; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header Cookie $http_cookie; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; 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_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl on; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https; 

curl output

-$ curl -I -k https://example.com/internal/errorlogs/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.0.5 Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:32:07 GMT Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 14327 -$ curl -I -k https://example.com/internal/errorlogs HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: nginx/1.0.5 Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:32:11 GMT Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 127 Location: http://example.com/internal/errorlogs/ 

Answer 1

I saw you added the server_name_in_redirect directive, but you need proxy_redirect directive on the location session

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpProxyModule#proxy_redirect

You will add something like that

proxy_redirect http://example.com/ /;