nginx - rewrite location to root of server - nginx

Question

I have this nginx.conf nginx configuration:
http {
...
upstream app_servers {
server admin;
}
upstream status_servers {
server status:5000;
}
# Configuration for the server
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
location / {
proxy_pass http://app_servers;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
}
location /api {
proxy_pass http://api_servers;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
}
}
}
/ is server to one server, and
/api to another api server.
The problem is with the second (the api server).
The calls are reaching /api/** while I want them to reach the root of the api server (basically remove the /api when calling the api server).
so calling
/api -> will reach / in the api server, and calling
/api/foo -> will reach /foo in the api server.
I guess I'm looking for some kind of rewrite rull for that(?)
I have tried Inside the /api location:
rewrite ^/api(.*) /$1 last;
but it didn't seem to work.
Any kind of help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Solved it using rewrite ^/api(/.*)$ $1 break;
but I can't just using /api - it must be /api/ (with trailing /)
For me it's fine, interesting though if anyone knows how to have support for /api too.

Answer 2

I'm not sure you still need it...but I managed to avoid "/api/", by doing this:
rewrite /api(/|$)(.*) /$2 break;