How to prevent nginx from reverse proxy specific subdirectories

Question

On Apache you can ProxyPass everything except one or more subdirectories (with "!").

    ProxyPass /subdir !
    ProxyPass / http://localhost:9999/

What is the Nginx equivalent ?

My first guess is obviously not working :

 location /subdir {
      root /var/www/site/subdir;
  }

 location / {
      proxy_pass http://localhost:9999/ ;
  }

Christopher Perrin · Answer 1 · 2015-03-20T15:23:04.130

You can bind the proxy_pass to EXACTLY the path you like, like this

location = / {
    proxy_pass http://localhost:9999/;
}

This makes sure that no other path will be passed but /

OR

you can use this syntax for just the subdirectories to be matched

location ^~ /subdir {
     alias /var/www/site/subdir;
}

location / {
    proxy_pass http://localhost:9999/ ;
}

The ^~ matches the subdir and then stops searching so the / will not be executed. It is described here.

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