Nginx rewrite rule guide

Question

I am totally newbie on NGINX reverse proxy solution and its seems to getting hard to understand all the terminology. I am looking for a solution as follows. I would really appreciate anybody's help to configure the same.

We have an internal web server which we would like to publish at WWW site but don't want customer to see internal server URL. As example:

Customer access www.mycompany.com/track --> NGINX read the track and then redirect URL to internal server.com.au/tracker . We dont want customer to see this address.

Any suggestion?

Cheers,

Sandy

Answer 1

It is much better in this case to use the proxy. Rewrites are meant for URLs within the same domain or to redirect the client (which would show in the url). Try this:

location / {
    proxy_pass http://internal.example.com/;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
}