Mask URL part while proxying Tomcat webapp through Nginx

Question

I've got the webbapp at the server 1.1.1.1:8080/AppName/ Now I need to hide port and AppName dir URL part. So I installed Nginx on server 2.2.2.2 with virthost name test.com.

Here is the virthost config:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name test.com;


    location / {

    proxy_pass http://1.1.1.1:8080/;

    }
}

Port is hided but how can I mask out AppName? Now I run site as http://test.com/AppName/ but need http://test.com/

The following doesn't make success (too many redirects fail):

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name test.com;


    location / {

    proxy_pass http://1.1.1.1:8080/;
    rewrite ^/(.*) http://test.com/AppName/$1 break;

    }
}

Thanks in advance!

BTW if you sujest how to reach that wih Apache+mod_proxy I would apreciate much too.

Answer 1

How about proxy_pass http://tomcat:port/appname/?