Why doesn't proxy_pass work in nginx?

Question

linux

In the config I write
location /cloud/ {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8000;
}
But I don't see the content from someipaddress:8000 under the someipaddress/cloud link , why? someipaddress:8000 - Works great! Also I can wget localhost:8000 and it works i.e. You can see everything on localhost. What am I doing wrong? tried both 127.0.0.1 and server ip in proxy_pass - to no avail.

Answer 1

Because the request is sent to localhost:8000 in the same form as it was received. the call goes to localhost:8000/cloud and through wget you pull localhost:8000
Accordingly, you need to add / like this should work:

location /cloud/ {
   proxy_pass http://localhost:8000/;
}