Serving a.html from apache while requesting b.html - nginx

Question

I'm creating a nginx reverse proxy to apache. Apache runs on port 8080 and nginx on 80.
I hope to achieve the following;
When I request the page http://server/test.html it should be proxyed to http://server:8080/unknown.html
Later on I'll do some eval stuff on the pages and redirect the users to the right pages, but I can't even get this to work. I get the test.html back as response all the time.
My nginx config:
server {
listen 80;
root /var/www/;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name example.com;
location / {
# try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}
location ~ \.html$ {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
#rewrite ^/unknown.html;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
proxy_redirect http://127.0.0.1/test.html http://127.0.0.1:8080/unknown.html;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
I have zero experience yet, but I'm eager to learn how to get this working...

Answer 1

Firstly, the proxy_redirect directive is the opposite of what you need. It is only used to rewrite the Location response headers in 3xx responses from upstream. See this document for details.
You can use a rewrite ... break statement within the location block that performs the proxy_pass, for example:
location ... {
rewrite ^/test.html$ /unknown.html break;
proxy_pass ...;
}
See this document for details.