How to properly proxy in nginx?

Question

Nginx

Is it possible that, for example, for the site.ru/http://google.ru request, proxying was on google.ru
, I try, but for some reason all to no avail

location ~ /(.*) {
        proxy_pass   $args ;
    }

Answer 1

merge_slashes off;
location ~ ^/proxy/(.*)$ {
    resolver 8.8.8.8;
    proxy_pass $1;
}