question Re: NGINX reverse proxy to NIFI: contextpath issue in Support Questions

Question

It should go like this:

NGINX Reverse proxy > proxy.lan/nifi1 goes to the NIFI 1 instance on nifi1.lan
NGINX Reverse proxy > proxy.lan/nifi2 goes to the NIFI 2 instance on nifi2.lan

NGINX reverse proxy runs on 192.168.1.114:80 NIFI runs on 192.168.1.153:8080

My configuration file nginx.conf:

server {
listen 80
server_name 192.168.1.114;

location /nifi1 {
proxy_set_header X-ProxyScheme "http";
proxy_set_header X-ProxyHost "192.168.1.114";
proxy_set_header X-ProxyPort "80";
proxy_set_header X-ProxyContextPath "/nifi1";
proxy_pass http://192.168.1.153:8080;
}
}

This is my NIFI nifi.properties file:

nifi.web.proxy.content.path=/nifi1
nifi.web.proxy.host=192.168.1.114:80

When accessing http://192.168.1.114/nifi1 , I will get the message "Did you mean /nifi" but the page looks off. It's missing the styling of the page.

I get redirected after 5 secs to http://192.168.1.114/nifi1/nifi and the same message appears "Did you mean /nifi", again, without any styling.

And it just keeps redirecting over and over, retrying http://192.168.1.114/nifi/nifi1 .

Either i'm missing a configuration in NGINX and it's not passing what NIFI is looking for, or NIFI can't process my request from NGINX and it's in a redirecting loop.

When going directly to http://192.168.1.153:8080/nifi , I can get the page just fine.

Any clues? I've enabled the DEBUGGING logs on the NIFI side but I can't really see anything that could identify the problem.

Anyone? thanks! 🙂