In image #1, as you can see, I am getting a valid ES response on firing a GET request. However, if I try doing the same things through the NGINX reverse proxy that I have created and hit myip/elasticsearch, it returns me the error (image #2). Can someone help me with this?
server {
listen 80;
server_name myip;
location /elasticsearch/ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9200;
}
location /kibana/ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5601;
}
}
The right way is to specify both of those slashes. Slash after 127.0.0.1:9000 is essential, without it your request /elasticsearch/some/route would be passed as-is while with that slash it would be passed as /some/route. In nginx terms it means that you specified an URI after the backend name. That is, an URI prefix specified in a location directive (/elasticsearch/) stripped from an original URI (we having some/route at this stage) and an URI specified after the backend name (/) prepended to it resulting in / + some/route = /some/route. You can specify any path in a proxy_pass directive, for example, with proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9200/prefix/ that request would be passed to the backend as /prefix/some/route. Now if you understand all being said, you can see that specifying location /elasticsearch { ... } instead of location /elasticsearch/ { ... } would give you //some/route instead of /some/route. I'm not sure it is exactly the cause of your problem however configurations like
location /elasticsearch/ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9200/;
}
are more correct.
Now may I ask you what you get with exactly this configuration in response to curl -i http://localhost:9200/ and curl -i http://localhost/? I want to see all the headers (of cause except those containing private information).
The problem is the path. Nginx is passing it unmodified.
Add a slash at the proxy_pass urls.
server {
listen 80;
server_name myip;
location /elasticsearch/ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9200/;
}
location /kibana/ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5601/;
}
}
From the documentation:
Note that in the first example above, the address of the proxied server is followed by a URI, /link/. If the URI is specified along with the address, it replaces the part of the request URI that matches the location parameter. For example, here the request with the /some/path/page.html URI will be proxied to http://www.example.com/link/page.html. If the address is specified without a URI, or it is not possible to determine the part of URI to be replaced, the full request URI is passed (possibly, modified).
/ and now, it looks like location /elasticsearch . However, I keep getting the same exception with proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9200/ as well as proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9200