Nginx proxy: rewrite rule for root request - nginx

Question

I have nginx installed on port 80 and a node application on port 2368 behind nginx
nginx configuration looks like this
server {
server_name domain.com www.domain.com;
listen 80;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:2368;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_buffering off;
}
}
This configuration works exactly as expected. For example / request turns into http://localhost:2368/, and /post/mypost turns into http://localhost:1234/post/mypost etc.
What I want is that only / request turned into http://localhost:2368/latestpost/. And all other requests are handled the same way as in example above. Thnx!

Answer 1

You could use rewrite directive:
server {
server_name domain.com www.domain.com;
listen 80;
location / {
rewrite ^/$ /latestpost/ break;
proxy_pass http://localhost:2368;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_buffering off;
}
}
or in separate location:
server {
server_name domain.com www.domain.com;
listen 80;
location = / {
rewrite ^.* /latestpost/;
}
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:2368;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_buffering off;
}
}
Second variant is slightly more efficient as it will not try rewrite every request. But difference will be unnoticeable, I guess.