Nginx proxy_pass with $remote_addr

Question

I\'m trying to include $remote_addr or $http_remote_addr on my proxy_pass without success.

The rewrite rule works

location ^~ /freegeoip/ {  
  rewri         


        

Answer 1

If anyone is stll experiencing trouble, for me it helped to move the proxy_pass host to a seperate upstream, so I come up with something like this

upstream backend-server {
  server backend.service.consul;
}

server {
  listen       80;
  server_name  frontend.test.me;

  location ~/api(.*)$  {
    proxy_pass http://backend-server$1;
  }
  location / {
    # this works mystically! backend doesn't...
    proxy_pass http://frontend.service.consul/;
  }
}