I am trying to setup an nginx server to reverse proxy data from two different servers via ajax. Only one of the requests is working however. The other gives me a No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header error.
Running the same front-end that does the ajax requests on a node.js server works however:
"use strict";
let express = require('express');
let request = require('request');
let PORT = process.env.PORT || 3000;
let app = express();
app.use(express.static(__dirname + "/public"));
app.get("/a", (req, res) => {
let url = "http://external-website-a.com/rest.exe/etc?...";
request(url).pipe(res);
});
app.get("/b", (req, res) => {
let url = "http://external-website-b.com/webservice.svc/etc?...";
request(url).pipe(res);
});
let server = app.listen(PORT, () => {
console.log("Listening on port: " + PORT);
});
With node.js the client gets both json files, while "b" fails on nginx. Here is my sites-available/default config:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
root /var/www/html;
index index.html
server_name _;
location / {
sendfile off; #http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37742950
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
location /a {
proxy_pass http://external-website-a.com/rest.exe/etc?...;
}
location /b {
proxy_pass http://external-website-b.com/webservice.svc/etc?...;
}
}
I have been trying to add all the proxy_set_header information I could find on the web.. but nothing has worked so far.. Furthermore when I directly access "localhost:8080/a" I get shown a json (as I should), but when I access "localhost:8080/b" I instead get redirected to "external-website-b.com/webservice.svc/etc?..." even with proxy_redirect off; Why? And does that mean anything related to the issue?
How come my node.js/express server can serve the data, but nginx fails?
