Hello,

I'm trying to implement Nginx Load Balancer + Reverse Proxy setup.

Heres the scenario.


I have two upstream servers ( running tomcat on port 8080 ) which is running an API application. Also I have some static files associated with the application.

I'm looking for the following setup.

Host the static files in load balancer itself and forward the other requests to upstream servers.


Static files are stored in /var/www/html/static in load balancer.

And API files are stored in /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ folder of respective upstream servers.

Could someone please give me a reference configuration to achieve this setup ?

Nevermind. I got it. Solution is like as shown below.

server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name sdnx.biz;
root /var/www/html/;
location ^~ /static {
alias /var/www/html/static;
}

This will exclude the static files from proxy pass and rest can be forwarded to upstream servers as shown below


location / {
proxy_pass http://nxha-upstreamservers;
proxy_connect_timeout 240;
proxy_send_timeout 240;
proxy_read_timeout 240;
proxy_next_upstream error timeout invalid_header http_500 http_502 http_503 http_504;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
proxy_redirect off;

}
}