I’m trying to understand how nginx works. I managed to use it with a simple sample app, and to make it work for my.domain.com. Now I’d like to do the same for my.domain.com/api, but I keep having 404 error. Here is my code
server {
server_name my.domain.com;
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/ec2.tyremotion.fr/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/ec2.tyremotion.fr/privkey.pem;
location /api {
proxy_pass http://webdemo:80;
}
}
When I connect with my browser to either my.domain.com or my.domain.com/api I’m greeted with an error 404. When i change location /api to location / it works when I connect to my.domain.com.
What am I doing wrong here ?
Edit : here is my full nginx config :
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is
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# configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:
user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log notice;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#gzip on;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}
# configuration file /etc/nginx/mime.types:
types {
text/html html htm shtml;
text/css css;
text/xml xml;
image/gif gif;
image/jpeg jpeg jpg;
application/javascript js;
application/atom+xml atom;
application/rss+xml rss;
text/mathml mml;
text/plain txt;
text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor jad;
text/vnd.wap.wml wml;
text/x-component htc;
image/avif avif;
image/png png;
image/svg+xml svg svgz;
image/tiff tif tiff;
image/vnd.wap.wbmp wbmp;
image/webp webp;
image/x-icon ico;
image/x-jng jng;
image/x-ms-bmp bmp;
font/woff woff;
font/woff2 woff2;
application/java-archive jar war ear;
application/json json;
application/mac-binhex40 hqx;
application/msword doc;
application/pdf pdf;
application/postscript ps eps ai;
application/rtf rtf;
application/vnd.apple.mpegurl m3u8;
application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml kml;
application/vnd.google-earth.kmz kmz;
application/vnd.ms-excel xls;
application/vnd.ms-fontobject eot;
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint ppt;
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics odg;
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation odp;
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet ods;
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text odt;
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
pptx;
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
xlsx;
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
docx;
application/vnd.wap.wmlc wmlc;
application/wasm wasm;
application/x-7z-compressed 7z;
application/x-cocoa cco;
application/x-java-archive-diff jardiff;
application/x-java-jnlp-file jnlp;
application/x-makeself run;
application/x-perl pl pm;
application/x-pilot prc pdb;
application/x-rar-compressed rar;
application/x-redhat-package-manager rpm;
application/x-sea sea;
application/x-shockwave-flash swf;
application/x-stuffit sit;
application/x-tcl tcl tk;
application/x-x509-ca-cert der pem crt;
application/x-xpinstall xpi;
application/xhtml+xml xhtml;
application/xspf+xml xspf;
application/zip zip;
application/octet-stream bin exe dll;
application/octet-stream deb;
application/octet-stream dmg;
application/octet-stream iso img;
application/octet-stream msi msp msm;
audio/midi mid midi kar;
audio/mpeg mp3;
audio/ogg ogg;
audio/x-m4a m4a;
audio/x-realaudio ra;
video/3gpp 3gpp 3gp;
video/mp2t ts;
video/mp4 mp4;
video/mpeg mpeg mpg;
video/quicktime mov;
video/webm webm;
video/x-flv flv;
video/x-m4v m4v;
video/x-mng mng;
video/x-ms-asf asx asf;
video/x-ms-wmv wmv;
video/x-msvideo avi;
}
# configuration file /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:
server {
listen 80;
server_name my.domain.com;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
server {
server_name my.domain.com;
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/my.domain.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/my.domain.com/privkey.pem;
location /api {
proxy_pass http://webdemo:80;
}
}
>Solution :
There might be other issues, but this one is probably not what you want :
This config means "when you call to my.domain.com/api, use the backend URL http://webdemo:80", and that is all :
location /api {
proxy_pass http://webdemo:80;
}
You might want this instead :
location /api/ {
proxy_pass http://webdemo:80/;
}
Which means : "when you call to my.domain.com/api/, use the backend URL http://webdemo:80/, when you call to my.domain.com/api/anything/else, use the backend URL http://webdemo:80/anything/else, etc".
In other words : locations ending with / are considered as roots for multiple locations. Other locations are considered as exact locations.