using trailing slashes in nginx configuration

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    location /product {
        proxy_pass http://10.0.0.25:8080;
    }

if I use my first location description for product folder, I should use http://mysdomain.com/product/ and I can not use http://mysdomain.com/product from browser. I mean I should use a slash end of url. I want to access product folder with two stuation.

is there s difference between this:

    location /product/ {
        proxy_pass http://10.0.0.25:8080;
    }

Alexey Ten · Answer 1 · 2018-08-09T15:13:10.000

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These locations are different. First one will match /production for example, that might be not what you expected. So I prefer to use locations with a trailing slash.

Also, note that:

If a location is defined by a prefix string that ends with the slash character, and requests are processed by one of proxy_pass, fastcgi_pass, uwsgi_pass, scgi_pass, or memcached_pass, then in response to a request with URI equal to this string, but without the trailing slash, a permanent redirect with the code 301 will be returned to the requested URI with the slash appended.

If you have something like:

location /product/ {
    proxy_pass http://backend;
}

and go to http://example.com/product, nginx will automatically redirect you to http://example.com/product/.

Even if you don't use one of these directives above, you could always do the redirect manually:

location = /product {
    rewrite ^ /product/ permanent;
}

or, if you don't want redirect you could use:

location = /product {
    proxy_pass http://backend;
}

edited Aug 09 '18 at 15:13

answered Jun 25 '14 at 05:49

Alexey Ten

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I am using proxy_pass http://myip:8080/product , then call browser this address. Browser redirects me to http://myip/product and gives error page can not view. – barteloma Jun 25 '14 at 07:01
Use backticks for code. Markdown parsed you comment and it's hard to find out what your code really is. – Alexey Ten Jun 25 '14 at 07:04
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Thanks, it was important to know that if /product/ is added then even the browser send it /product is bound to receive the 301 from the server. Quite valid point indeed. – Sur Max Aug 25 '18 at 12:13
@barteloma - same for me. `ip:port/path` redirects to `ip/path/`. The `:port` is lost. – olfek Aug 28 '23 at 12:22
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@olfek did you change [`port_in_redirect`](https://nginx.org/r/port_in_redirect) directive? – Alexey Ten Aug 28 '23 at 12:43
@AlexeyTen nope – olfek Aug 28 '23 at 12:58
@olfek post new question and show there full nginx config – Alexey Ten Aug 28 '23 at 13:09

score 7 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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No, these are not the same--you will need to use a trailing slash with a regex to match both, i.e.

location ~ /product/?

See this related answer for a more detailed response on how to match the entire URL.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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