nginx ingress: Cannot redirect to backend service - nginx

Question

I have scoured the Net to try to resolve something that seems to be a common issue, but unfortunately all of the documentation and suggestions have not solve my problem. I hope that you can help me and others with it.
We are migrating from another ingress to nginx-ingress. To validate our installation, I am using httpbin as the backend service.
When I create the following ingress with a path of '/' and send the query, I receive a proper response.
curl -I -k http://abczzz.com/anything
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: mikie-ingress
namespace: mikie
spec:
ingressClassName: nginx
rules:
- host: abczzz.com
http:
paths:
- path: /
pathType: Prefix
backend:
service:
name: httpbin-service
port:
number: 8999
What we really need is to be able to redirect to different services off of this single host, so I changed the ingress to the following, but the query always fails with a 404. Basically, I want the /httpbin to disappear and pass the path onto the backend service, httpbin.
curl -I -k http://abczzz.com/httpbin/anything
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: mikie-ingress
namespace: mikie
annotations:
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$1
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/configuration-snippet: |
rewrite ^(/httpbin)$ $1/ redirect;
spec:
ingressClassName: nginx
rules:
- host: abczzz.com
http:
paths:
- path: /httpbin(/|$)(.*)
pathType: Prefix
backend:
service:
name: httpbin-service
port:
number: 8999
I'd really appreciate your help to resolve what must be a simple routing issue.
Thanks for your time and interest.

Answer 1

I finally figured things out... Hopefully, the following snippet will help others...
---
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: mikie-ingress
namespace: mikie
annotations:
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$1
spec:
ingressClassName: nginx
rules:
- host: abczzz.com
http:
paths:
- backend:
service:
name: httpbin-service
port:
number: 8999
path: /httpbin/(.*)
pathType: Prefix