I am trying to exclude some paths in my nginx proxypass and want everything else to go to my proxypass.
i.e I dont want to give proxy_pass to any url which starts with 'tiny' or 'static', but want everythign else to go to my proxypass location.
and I am using following regex to achieve this:
~ ^((?!tiny|static).)*$
But I always get 404 error. If I navigate to following url in browser
localhost:8080/xyz
I want it to go to
localhost:8000/api/tiny/records/xyz
Can someone please help me in pointing out what is the issue ?
Here is my full nginx conf file:-
server {
listen 8080;
server_name localhost;
location ~ ^((?!tiny|static).)*$ {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8000/api/tiny/records/$1;
}
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8000;
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root html;
}
}
Thanks a lot.
You are missing a / and have the * in the wrong place. The regular expression should be:
^(/(?!tiny|static).*)$
But you do not need to use a regular expression with a negative lookahead assertion. Instead, place a normal regular expression on the other location block.
For example:
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8000/api/tiny/records/;
}
location ~ ^/(tiny|static) {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8000;
}