nginx is not proxy passing to my nest app - nginx

Question

I am trying to configure NGINX to serve my nest app(which is running on docker).
My app is listening on port 3000
The server is amazon linux 2(ec2-user)
The conf file looks like this:
user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /usr/share/nginx/modules/*.conf;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 4096;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
# Load modular configuration files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory.
# See http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#include
# for more information.
#include /etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx.conf;
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name <ip.adress>;
#web
location / {
add_header X-yahav $uri; # this gets mounted
}
#api
location = /api { # this one is never approached
add_header X-yahav "Api-pass";
#proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
#proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
#proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000/;
}
}
}
I want to redirect /api to my nest app but it just wont have it i'm getting a simple 404 without the header i'm attaching(as you can see in the conf file)
Another thing is when I go to the root (location /) I do get my header mounted as expected
Any have any idea what is wrong?

Answer 1

Don't forget to add "/api" to your requests, like http://your-server:80/api/