Docker Nginx Proxy: how to route traffic to different container using path and not hostname

Question

lets say that now I have different app running on the same server on different path:

• 10.200.200.210/app1
• 10.200.200.210/app2

Answer 1

Here is a full nginx.conf

It redirects all to root, and only /api to a different container.

Source and an example container using it

user  nginx;
worker_processes  1;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
  server {
        listen 80;
        location / {
            proxy_pass http://frontend:3000/;
        }
        location /api {
            proxy_pass http://backend/api;
    }
  }
}