How to redirect to specific upstream servers based on request URL in Nginx?

Question

I\'m using Nginx as a load balancer for my 5 app servers.

I\'d like to redirect to specific servers based on the request URL, for instance:

acme.com/cate         


        

Answer 1

You will also need to rewrite the URL otherwise /whatever/ will get forwarded to the backend server

location /admin/ {
    rewrite ^/admin^/ /$1 break;
    proxy_pass http://10.128.1.2;
}