How to exact match a nginx location? - nginx

Question

I am configuring a nginx revser proxy. The result should be when user type http://10.21.169.13/mini, then the request should be proxy_pass to 192.168.1.56:5000. Here is the nginx config:
server {
listen 80;
server_name 10.21.169.13;
location = /mini {
proxy_pass http://192.168.1.65:5000;
include /etc/nginx/proxy_params;
}
}
The above location block never worked with http://10.21.169.13/mini. The only location block worked is:
server {
listen 80;
server_name 10.21.169.13;
location / {
proxy_pass http://192.168.1.65:5000;
include /etc/nginx/proxy_params;
}
}
But the above config also match http://10.21.169.13 request which is too board.
What location block will only match 'http://10.21.169.13/mini` and no more?
UPDATE: tried and failed with the following:
location /mini {
proxy_pass http://192.168.1.65:5000;
include /etc/nginx/proxy_params;
}
location /mini/ {
proxy_pass http://192.168.1.65:5000;
include /etc/nginx/proxy_params;
}
The error is request not found.

Answer 1

Try this out:
server {
listen 80;
server_name 10.21.169.13;
# root /usr/share/nginx/html;
# index index.html index.htm;
location / {
# add something here to handle the root
# try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
location /mini {
proxy_pass http://192.168.1.65:5000;
include /etc/nginx/proxy_params;
}
}
Let me know if that works for you.