Avoid nginx escaping query parameters on proxy_pass

Question

I to proxy /api on a domain, I have this location block.

location ^~ /api/ {
    rewrite_log on;
    rewrite ^/api/(.*) /$1$is_args$args break;
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:1337;
}

It works fine as long as the URLs do not have query parameters, but as soon as they do, I get errors on the upstream server like these Could not find path: /records%3fname=hoegh.io

The %3f in question here is an URL encoded ?, and since it's URL encoded, the upstream server does not recognize it. That might be retarded, but I was hoping it was possible to get nginx to handle this correctly (ie. not escape the URL before passing it to the proxy).

Any ideas?

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KSolo · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-28 19:01:05Z

1

You don't need to do anything. $args is passed along automatically.

If you wish to modify the $args that are passed you have to override.

set $args "foo=bar";

for instance.

Working solution should go as follows:

location ^~ /api/ {
    rewrite_log on;
    rewrite ^/api/(.*) /$1 break;
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:1337;
}

answered Oct 28, 2016 at 19:01

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Wolph · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-06 15:50:07Z

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Have you tried this instead? It's generally not needed to add the query string as Nginx adds it automatically:

rewrite ^/api/(.*) /$1? break;

edited Oct 6, 2013 at 15:50

answered Oct 6, 2013 at 11:01

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2 Comments

mikl Over a year ago

I did have that earlier, but then it seemed the query string wasn't passed along at all.

Wolph Over a year ago

Sorry, my bad. I forgot to type the ? at the end of the redirect string

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