ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS Nginx - nginx

Question

I'm trying to redirect my particular domain to Tomcat where multipe Application is running, but I'm getting "ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS" ERROR in the browser
My configuration has below
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.mydomain.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:7070/AppName;
proxy_read_timeout 600s;
client_max_body_size 200m;
}
}

Answer 1

Recently I configured my Odoo app to forward all requests via Nginx.
You need to add something like this to your Nginx config:
upstream tomcat {
server 127.0.0.1:8080;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.mydomain.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://tomcat;
proxy_next_upstream error timeout invalid_header http_500 http_502 http_503 http_504;
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-Proto https;
}
proxy_read_timeout 600s;
client_max_body_size 200m;
}
}
If this doesn't work, for reference, you may want to check this article: https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/install-odoo-on-a-debian-8-vps-with-nginx-as-a-reverse-proxy/
I hope you'll find this useful.

Answer 2

It is common to set the proxy_redirect directive in the same way as the proxy_pass directive. see for example configure-nginx-with-proxy-pass.
location ~ ^/stash {
proxy_pass http://IP:7990;
proxy_redirect http://IP:7990/ /stash;
}
but I got the ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS error with this configuration... so i changed it for "proxy_redirect off;" as suggested here, and it solved my problem!
here is the configuration for my gitlab server:
server {
listen 80;
server_name reverseproxy.mydomain.org;
location /gitlab/ {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host-Real-IP $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_pass http://172.xx.xx.xxx:10080;
#proxy_redirect http://172.xx.xx.xxx:10080/ /gitlab/;
proxy_redirect off;
}
}
NB: i also needed to remove the directive "proxy_set_header Host $host;" for my gitlab server, powered by docker-gitlab.