nginx proxy pass subpaths not redirected

Question

I have the following nginx config:

    location /mail {
           rewrite           ^/mail/(.*) /$1 break;
           proxy_pass https://roundcube-host;
            


        

Answer 1

References to nginx docs: HttpCoreModule#location, HttpProxyModule#proxy_pass.

There is a better way than using regex (which is slow) for location match. In this case, you could use ^~ to tell nginx to match the given prefix /mail before doing any regex match. You also don't need that rewrite rule because proxy_pass can do that simple rewrite by itself (by adding a trailing slash / in the upstream server url).

My suggestion is to replace

    location ~ ^/mail(.*)$ {
        rewrite           ^/mail/(.*) /$1 break;
        proxy_pass https://roundcube-host;

by

    location ^~ /mail {
        proxy_pass https://roundcube-host/;