Running a Spring Boot app behind nginx - nginx

Question

I have a Spring Boot + MVC app up and running on my server and it's bound to http://localhost:8000.
There is an nginx proxy (or is it a reverse proxy, not sure about the name) that listens to the outside world on ports 80 and 443. The root ( / ) will resolve correctly, but anything under it will not resolve and results in a 404 error ( /someControllerName/action, /images/, /css/ ).
I have this as my configuration:
upstream jetty {
server localhost:8000;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name domain.com;
return 301 http://www.domain.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443;
server_name domain.com;
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/ssl.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/ssl.key;
return 301 https://www.domain.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen 443 ssl;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html index.htm;
server_name www.domain.com localhost;
#ssl on;
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/ssl-unified.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/ssl.key;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
# Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
# include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
proxy_pass $scheme://jetty/$request_uri;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
}
Any help is very much appreciated.

Answer 1

You can't combine proxy_pass with try_files in the way that you have attempted. As the comment in your configuration describes, the try_files directive causes nginx to look for a file that matches the URI and then look for a directory that matches the URI. If it doesn't find either, it responds with a 404. You can read more about try_files in the nginx documentation.
It's not clear from your question that you need to use try_files at all so the simplest way to fix your configuration is to remove the try_files line.