Nginx reverse-proxy pass front-end application matching url from HTTPS to HTTP

Question

I everyone. I'm very new to Nginx. My situation is like this. I have a Php application which that handles both backend and front-end, and also I have another ReactJs application as a micro-frontend service. I'm using a Docker container for the Nginx service.

Currently, domains are like this; Php application - https://my.happy.customers.local ReactJs - http://my.happy.customers.profile.local

What I want to achieve here is, whenever customers when to https://my.happy.customers.local/user/1234567989/profile url I want to send users to http:///my.happy.customers.profile.local:3001/user/1234567989/profile url.

All the cookies and local-storage values are bound to the https://my.happy.customers.local domain, so I want to use them from the second domain too.

How can I do this??

I managed to redirect url but in that way, I'm losing all cookies.

location ~ ^/(user)(/.*)(/profile)(/.*) {
  rewrite ^/(user)(/.*)(/profile)(/.*)$ http:///my.happy.customers.profile.local:3001$request_uri redirect
}

If I can redirect the user to the micro-frontend without changing the url, it will be great. Is this possible?

I tried this way but it's giving me an error.

location ~ ^/(user)(/.*)(/profile)(/.*) {
      resolver my.happy.customers.profile.local;
      proxy_pass http://my.happy.customers.profile.local:3001$request_uri
    }

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 12 '22 at 10:43

Your second example is the correct approach. However, there are issues in your example:

You have typed localtion, it should be location.

For the resolver directive, you need to specify either the domain name or IP address/addresses of the name servers you want nginx to use to resolve domain names. I doubt you have installed a recursive DNS resolver to my.happy.customers.profile.local server.

Nginx reverse-proxy pass front-end application matching url from HTTPS to HTTP

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